Security paradigm for remote health monitoring edge devices in internet of things

Abstract

The tremendous growth in the internet of things (IoT) technology has provided great support for e-healthcare applications. The remote health monitoring of patients at home is gaining popularity with the increase in design of number of IoT enabled wearable devices. The secure and efficient health data retrieval during continuous uploading of huge data on network is a challenge. In addition, another challenge exists due to limited resources available with IoT device to proceed efficient data retrieval. On the other hand, the edge cloud in edge computing technology provide abundant resources to its devices for various computations, storage and processing. The integration of IoT with edge would solve the resource constraint issue. However, efficient retrieval of health data from large pool of data would still be an issue due to IP based solutions offered by IoT. The Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising solution for efficient delivery of data based on its name based content searching. This paper proposed NDN communication based secure remote healthcare monitoring framework by integrating IoT with edge computing where security to the each individual content is provided through hashing and encryption mechanism. The performance of the proposed framework is evaluated against its companion in Icarus simulator. The results proved the efficiency of our framework for content retrieval delay and cost associated in accessing the required data.