Title: A complete secure cloud-based WBAN framework for health data transmission by implementing authenticity, confidentiality and integrity

Authors: Sohail Saif; Rajni Gupta; Suparna Biswas

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, BF-142, Salt Lake, Sector-1, Kolkata – 700064, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, BF-142, Salt Lake, Sector-1, Kolkata – 700064, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, BF-142, Salt Lake, Sector-1, Kolkata – 700064, India

Abstract: Here, we present a secure cloud-based healthcare framework using wireless body area network (WBAN). WBAN may suffer from various security attacks and threats that need to be resolved to provide real-time health monitoring and support. Patients' vital biological signals can be accessed by the doctor using sensors, network, and cloud without physical visit of patient to the doctor's clinic or hospital. This cloud-based system provides secure health data transmission framework assuring security requirements, e.g., confidentiality, integrity, and authentication using cloud. This cost-effective solution uses biological signals of both patients and doctors to provide authentication, patients' vital signals are encrypted using variants of advanced encryption standard (AES) technique to provide confidentiality. The integrity of the sensitive patient data is ensured by SHA-256. We have experimentally analysed that average end to end delay for secure healthcare application is 19.34 msec with authentication and confidentiality only for AES. However, with integrity and secure key exchange for AES, the average end-to-end delay is 36.95 msec, 49.58 msec and 73.48 msec for AES128, AES192, and AES256 respectively. These delays are within the permissible delay limit of 250 msec for medical application.

Keywords: wireless body area network; WBAN; DH key; HAVAL; SHA-256; advanced encryption standard; AES; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2021.117614

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2021 Vol.20 No.1/2, pp.171 - 189

Received: 16 Dec 2017
Accepted: 23 Jan 2019
Published online: 16 Sep 2021 *

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