A Secure Protocol for Ubiquitous Sensing and Monitoring of Patient Conditions

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Published Nov 1, 2010
https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v1i2.20
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Volume 1, Issue 2, November 2010

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Eric Sabbah
City University of New York, The College of Technology
Kyoung-Don Kang
State University of New York at Binghamton

Abstract

Wireless sensor devices are envisioned to collect long term medical data that aid medical professionals in the care and treatment of the elderly and other patients with chronic diseases. Using wearable body sensor networks (BSNs), patients may live more mobile and independent lives than they would in a hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center. As a result, the quality of life can be improved and the cost for medical care can be reduced. Although security issues in BSNs have been studied previously, most existing work focuses on monitoring patients in a fixed location such as a hospital and nursing home, relying on centralized approaches that often have poor scalability. In this paper, we develop a new protocol to support secure and scalable anytime/anywhere monitoring of patients to give them full mobility, support the security of sensitive medical data, and preserve the location privacy of patients, while sharing sensor data collection and retrieval workloads among distributed storage nodes.

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Eric Sabbah, & Kyoung-Don Kang. (2010). A Secure Protocol for Ubiquitous Sensing and Monitoring of Patient Conditions. International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, 1(2), 211–230. https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v1i2.20
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