Private blockchain-envisioned security framework for AI-enabled IoT-based drone-aided healthcare services

Abstract

Internet of Drones (IoD) architecture is designed to support a coordinated access for the airspace using the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) known as drones. Recently, IoD communication environment is extremely useful for various applications in our daily activities. Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Internet of Things (IoT)-based drone-aided healthcare service is a specialized environment which can be used for different types of tasks, for instance, blood and urine samples collections, medicine delivery and for the delivery of other medical needs including the current pandemic of COVID-19. Due to wireless nature of communication among the deployed drones and their ground station server, several attacks (for example, replay, man-in-the-middle, impersonation and privileged-insider attacks) can be easily mounted by malicious attackers. To protect such attacks, the deployment of effective authentication, access control and key management schemes are extremely important in the IoD environment. Furthermore, combining the blockchain mechanism with deployed authentication make it more robust against various types of attacks. To mitigate such issues, we propose a private-blockchain based framework for secure communication in an IoT-enabled drone-aided healthcare environment. The blockchain-based simulation of the proposed framework has been carried out to measure its impact on various performance parameters. CCS CONCEPTS • Networks → Security protocols; • Security and privacy → Authentication.

Blockchain‐enabled secure communication mechanism for IoT‐driven personal health records

“…These encryption techniques provide the secrecy to the stored data as well the data, which is in transit. 12,16 • Integrity of health records: BIPHRS's should be protected against any kind of unauthorized updating. To maintain the integrity, the PHR, we should utilize the hash algorithms, that is, SHA256.…”

iGCACS-IoD: An Improved Certificate-Enabled Generic Access Control Scheme for Internet of Drones Deployment

“…It is then extremely helpful for the people who are with the compromised immunity and do not want to visit the hospitals physically. On the basis of reports generated through the collected samples, the doctors of a relevant hospital can prescribe the required medicines to the patients [5]. • Smart farming: IoD is also very useful for the smart farming/agriculture as the farmers always look for cheap and effective techniques for the regularly monitor of their crops (farms).…”

“…Access control and authentication are two important security services to secure different networking environments, like IoT, IoD, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), cyber-physical systems, smart grids, healthcare services, etc. [3]- [5], [16]- [31]. Tian et al [32] suggested a "certificate-based privacypreserving authentication scheme for an IoD environment".…”

“…All the existing sectors will become intelligent and smart to perform monitoring, surveillance with the inclusion of IoD based tools and technologies, in the near future [2]. The details of IoD applications can be found in [3]- [5].…”

Towards Smart Healthcare: UAV-Based Optimized Path Planning for Delivering COVID-19 Self-Testing Kits Using Cutting Edge Technologies

“…In health care, UAVs have been used for preventing cyber-attacks [28], information distribution [29], medical supplies dispatch, and others [30]. In healthcare, these AI-powered UAVs have been used for surveillance to combat pandemics [31], blockchain-envisioned security framework for AI-enabled IoT-based drone-aided healthcare services [32], and smart communication systems [33]. Other studies have proposed using mixed 5G and AI-powered UAVs for various applications in healthcare as means for transformation into a smart healthcare sector [34].…”