Blockchain-Based Privacy Preservation for IoT-Enabled Healthcare System

【Author】 Sharma, Pratima; Namasudra, Suyel; Chilamkurti, Naveen; Kim, Byung-Gyu; Crespo, Ruben Gonzalez

【Source】ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SENSOR NETWORKS

【影响因子】2.560

【Abstract】Blockchain technology provides a secure and reliable platform for managing data in various application areas, such as supply chain management, multimedia, financial sector, food sector, Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare, and many more. The recent emergence of blockchain with IoT provides significant growth in the healthcare industry to improve security, privacy, efficiency, and transparency with more business opportunities. Nevertheless, conventional healthcare schemes suffer from various security attacks like collusion, phishing, masquerade, etc. Therefore, a privacy-preserving Distributed Application (DA) is proposed in this paper using blockchain technology to create and maintain healthcare certificates. Here, the distributed application provides an interface between the blockchain network and system objects like healthcare centers, verifiers, and regular authorities to generate and issue medical documents. In addition, it also ensures security by specifying rules using various smart contracts. To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, various experimental tests are conducted using the Etherscan tool for measuring operation cost, latency, and processing time. Here, the efficiency of the proposed system is also compared to the existing systems in terms of latency, throughput, and response time. The experimental results and comparative analysis show that the proposed work is more efficient than the existing techniques.

【Keywords】Smart contract; healthcare certificate; distributed application; Ethereum

【发表时间】2023 AUG

【收录时间】2023-08-23

【文献类型】实验仿真

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区块链技术-协同技术-物联网