CP-BDHCA: Blockchain-Based Confidentiality-Privacy Preserving Big Data Scheme for Healthcare Clouds and Applications

【Author】 Ghayvat, Hemant; Pandya, Sharnil; Bhattacharya, Pronaya; Zuhair, Mohd; Rashid, Mamoon; Hakak, Saqib; Dev, Kapal

【Source】IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS

【影响因子】7.021

【Abstract】Healthcare big data (HBD) allows medical stakeholders to analyze, access, retrieve personal and electronic health records (EHR) of patients. Mostly, the records are stored on healthcare cloud and application (HCA) servers, and thus, are subjected to end-user latency, extensive computations, single-point failures, and security and privacy risks. A joint solution is required to address the issues of responsive analytics, coupled with high data ingestion in HBD and secure EHR access. Motivated from the research gaps, the paper proposes a scheme, that integrates blockchain (BC)-based confidentiality-privacy (CP) preserving scheme, CP-BDHCA, that operates in two phases. In the first phase, elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC)-based digital signature framework, HCA-ECC is proposed to establish a session key for secure communication among different healthcare entities. Then, in the second phase, a two-step authentication framework is proposed that integrates Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) and advanced encryption standard (AES), named as HCA-RSAE that safeguards the ecosystem against possible attack vectors. CP-BDAHCA is compared against existing HCA cloud applications in terms of parameters like response time, average delay, transaction and signing costs, signing and verifying of mined blocks, and resistance to DoS and DDoS attacks. We consider 10 BC nodes and create a real-world customized dataset to be used with SEER dataset. The dataset has 30,000 patient profiles, with 1000 clinical accounts. Based on the combined dataset the proposed scheme outperforms traditional schemes like AI4SAFE, TEE, Secret, and IIoTEED, with a lower response time. For example, the scheme has a very less response time of 300 ms in DDoS. The average signing cost of mined BC transactions is 3,34 seconds, and for 205 transactions, has a signing delay of 1405 ms, with improved accuracy of approximate to 12% than conventional state-of-the-art approaches.

【Keywords】Medical services; Cryptography; Cloud computing; Stakeholders; Elliptic curve cryptography; Ecosystems; Servers; Blockchain; secure session key management; ECC signatures; pairing-based cryptography; DoS and DDoS attacks; Healthcare Cloud and Applications; Big Data

【发表时间】2022 MAY

【收录时间】2022-06-10

【文献类型】理论性文章

【主题类别】

区块链应用-实体经济-医疗领域