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Data Sharing and Privacy for Patient IoT Devices Using Blockchain

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Smart City and Informatization (iSCI 2019)

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Once a fitness fad, wearable and other related Internet of Things (IoT) devices are fast becoming common place in many different smart city applications such as healthcare. However, IoT devices, particularly inexpensive devices, often trade security and privacy for usability. One solution to protect privacy in the healthcare domain which has begun to be explored is blockchain-based technology. However, there are a number of limitations underpinning the use of blockchain, which limits its adoption particularly in applications that require low energy and computational footprints. In this paper, we present a transactional protocol for remote patient monitoring using directed acyclic graphs. We use a newer blockchain protocol called GHOSTDAG in both a public blockchain and a private blockchain. Our novel proposed solution aims to resolve known security issues for healthcare, without affecting scalability (a feature of classic blockchain architecture).

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9, Canada

    Gautam Srivastava

  2. Research Center for Interneural Computing, China Medical University, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Gautam Srivastava

  3. College of Computing and Software Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 30144, USA

    Reza M. Parizi

  4. Cyber Science Lab, School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada

    Ali Dehghantanha

  5. Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA

    Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

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  2. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

  3. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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  4. University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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  5. The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

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Srivastava, G., Parizi, R.M., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, KK.R. (2019). Data Sharing and Privacy for Patient IoT Devices Using Blockchain. In: Wang, G., El Saddik, A., Lai, X., Martinez Perez, G., Choo, KK. (eds) Smart City and Informatization. iSCI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1122. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1301-5_27

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