TY - JOUR
T1 - LightIoT
T2 - Lightweight and secure communication for energy-efficient IoT in health informatics
AU - Jan, Mian Ahmad
AU - Khan, Fazlullah
AU - Mastorakis, Spyridon
AU - Adil, Muhammad
AU - Akbar, Aamir
AU - Stergiou, Nicholas
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received December 28, 2020; revised April 18, 2021; accepted April 27, 2021. Date of publication May 4, 2021; date of current version August 19, 2021. This work was supported in part by NIH under Grant P20GM109090; in part by NSF under Grant CNS-2016714; and in part by the Nebraska University Collaboration Initiative. (Corresponding authors: Fazlullah Khan; Spyridon Mastorakis.) Mian Ahmad Jan, Fazlullah Khan, and Aamir Akbar are with the Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan (e-mail: mianjan@awkum.edu.pk; fazlullah@awkum.edu.pk; amirakbar@awkum.edu.pk).
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PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a key enabler of health informatics. IoT-enabled devices are used for in-hospital and in-home patient monitoring to collect and transfer biomedical data pertaining to blood pressure, electrocardiography (ECG), blood sugar levels, body temperature, etc. Among these devices, wearables have found their presence in a wide range of healthcare applications. These devices generate data in real-time and transmit them to nearby gateways and remote servers for processing and visualization. The data transmitted by these devices are vulnerable to a range of adversarial threats, and as such, privacy and integrity need to be preserved. In this paper, we present LightIoT, a lightweight and secure communication approach for data exchanged among the devices of a healthcare infrastructure. LightIoT operates in three phases: initialization, pairing, and authentication. These phases ensure the reliable transmission of data by establishing secure sessions among the communicating entities (wearables, gateways and a remote server). Statistical results exhibit that our scheme is lightweight, robust, and resilient against a wide range of adversarial attacks and incurs much lower computational and communication overhead for the transmitted data in the presence of existing approaches.
AB - Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a key enabler of health informatics. IoT-enabled devices are used for in-hospital and in-home patient monitoring to collect and transfer biomedical data pertaining to blood pressure, electrocardiography (ECG), blood sugar levels, body temperature, etc. Among these devices, wearables have found their presence in a wide range of healthcare applications. These devices generate data in real-time and transmit them to nearby gateways and remote servers for processing and visualization. The data transmitted by these devices are vulnerable to a range of adversarial threats, and as such, privacy and integrity need to be preserved. In this paper, we present LightIoT, a lightweight and secure communication approach for data exchanged among the devices of a healthcare infrastructure. LightIoT operates in three phases: initialization, pairing, and authentication. These phases ensure the reliable transmission of data by establishing secure sessions among the communicating entities (wearables, gateways and a remote server). Statistical results exhibit that our scheme is lightweight, robust, and resilient against a wide range of adversarial attacks and incurs much lower computational and communication overhead for the transmitted data in the presence of existing approaches.
KW - Health informatics
KW - authentication
KW - energy-efficient IoT
KW - lightweight communication
KW - wearables
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U2 - 10.1109/TGCN.2021.3077318
DO - 10.1109/TGCN.2021.3077318
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105881035
VL - 5
SP - 1202
EP - 1211
JO - IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
JF - IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
SN - 2473-2400
IS - 3
M1 - 9422780
ER -