Providing security and fault tolerance in P2P connections between clouds for mHealth services

Abstract

Lloret, J.; Sendra, S.; Jimenez, JM.; Parra-Boronat, L. (2016). Providing security and fault tolerance in P2P connections between clouds for mHealth services. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. 9 (5) Abstract:The mobile health (mHealth) and electronic health (eHealth) systems are useful to maintain a correct administration of health information and services. However, it is mandatory to ensure a secure data transmission and in case of a node failure, the system should not fall down. This fact is important because several vital systems could depend on this infrastructure. On the other hand, a cloud does not have infinite computational and storage resources in its infrastructure or would not provide all type of services. For this reason, it is important to establish an interrelation between clouds using communication protocols in order to provide scalability, efficiency, higher service availability and flexibility which allow the use of services, computing and storage resources of other clouds. In this paper, we propose the architecture and its secure protocol that allows exchanging information, data, services, computing and storage resources between all interconnected mHealth clouds. The system is based on a hierarchic architecture of two layers composed by nodes with different roles. The routing algorithm used to establish the connectivity between the nodes is the shortest path first (SPF), but it can be easily changed by any other one. Our architecture is highly scalable and allows adding new nodes and mHealth clouds easily, while it tries to maintain the load of the cloud balanced. Our protocol design includes node discovery, authentication and fault tolerance. We show the protocol operation and the secure system design. Finally we provide the performance results in a controlled test bench.

Systems and WBANs for Controlling Obesity

“…As future features to be integrated into smart m-health system, we should consider the possibility of creating collaborative wireless networks to monitor several individuals and combining the data from all nodes to take more efficient decisions [ 84 ]. Finally, it is important to consider the secured aspects for protecting the sensitive data the network transmits [ 85 ]. With all these considerations and the huge evolution of wearable sensors and smartphones, we are sure we will be able to create efficient systems for combating obesity and overweight.…”

Efficient data uncertainty management for health industrial internet of things using machine learning

“…The results discussion demonstrates that the proposed scheme can cope with differential attacks, tolerate the failures of healthcare centers, and keep fair incentives for patients. Lloret et al 27 proposed the architecture for secure communication and allowed the transferring of information, computing, network services, sensors data, and storage resources among the mHealth clouds. It comprises two main layers, and the routing algorithm is based on the shortest path first (SPF) to increase the connectivity and stability between the connected nodes.…”

Security based Approach of SHA 384 and SHA 512 Algorithms in Cloud Environment

“…Security administration, domain administration and cloud administration. Lloret et al (2016) discussed about cloud servers, all Administrative tasks are centrally managed through a single administrative interface. The cloud administrator will report to the directors of cloud operation, in its arrangement is pledged for setup and ongoing support of cloud infrastructure.…”