Blockchain-Based Mobile Edge Computing Framework for Secure Therapy Applications

【Author】 Rahman, Abdur; Hossain, M. Shamim; Loukas, George; Hassanain, Elham; Rahman, Syed Sadiqur; Alhamid, Mohammed F.; Guizani, Mohsen

【Source】IEEE ACCESS

【影响因子】3.476

【Abstract】Mobile edge computing (MEC) is being introduced and leveraged in many domains, but few studies have addressed MEC for secure in-home therapy management. To this end, this paper presents an in-home therapy management framework, which leverages the IoT nodes and the blockchain-based decentralized MEC paradigm to support low-latency, secure, anonymous, and always-available spatiotemporal multimedia therapeutic data communication within an on-demand data-sharing scenario. To the best of our knowledge, this non-invasive, MEC-based IoT therapy platform is first done by our group. This platform can provide a full-body joint range of motion data for physically challenged individuals in a decentralized manner. With MEC, the framework can provide therapy diagnostic and analytical data on demand to a large portion of humanity who are either born with disabilities or became disabled due to accidents, war-time injuries, or old age. For security, the framework uses blockchain-Tor-based distributed transactions to preserve the therapeutic data privacy, ownership, generation, storage, and sharing. Our initial test results from a complete implementation of the framework show that it can support a sufficiently large number of users without considerable increase in mean processing time.

【Keywords】Blockchain; mobile edge computing; therapy; IoT

【发表时间】2018

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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