Toward Energy-Efficient and Trustworthy eHealth Monitoring System

Ajmal Sawand, Soufiene Djahel, Zonghua Zhang, Farid Nait-Abdesselam

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Abstract

The rapid technological convergence between Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and cloud computing has made e-healthcare emerge as a promising application domain, which has significant potential to improve the quality of medical care. In particular, patient-centric health monitoring plays a vital role in e-healthcare service, involving a set of important operations ranging from medical data collection and aggregation, data transmission and segregation, to data analytics. This survey paper firstly presents an architectural framework to describe the entire monitoring life cycle and highlight the essential service components. More detailed discussions are then devoted to \em data collection at patient side, which we argue that it serves as fundamental basis in achieving robust, efficient, and secure health monitoring. Subsequently, a profound discussion of the security threats targeting eHealth monitoring systems is presented, and the major limitations of the existing solutions are analyzed and extensively discussed. Finally, a set of design challenges is identified in order to achieve high quality and secure patient-centric monitoring schemes, along with some potential solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)46-65
Number of pages20
JournalChina Communications
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • eHealthcare
  • wireless body area networks
  • cyber physical systems
  • mobile crowd sensing
  • security
  • privacy by design
  • trust

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