Identity Management Framework for E-Health Systems over 5G Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose identity management (IdM) framework for electronic healthcare (e- health) systems over 5G networks with consideration on wireless access and cloud access. Since 5G networks introduce new perspectives of network architecture, the IdM framework for e-health systems needs to consider different scenarios, such as different type devices with different access technologies. For the IdM based on wireless access, different access technologies are considered as direct connection based on 3GPP access and non-3GPP access and indirect connection through a smart phone. For the IdM based on cloud access, we propose two different methods including user cloud based and service provider cloud based. The comparison of these two methods are presented. The security discussion of the proposed IdM framework is provided to show the mutual authentication, identity protection and efficient security. The proposed IdM framework can achieve the required security properties efficiently in e-health system.