IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jftint/v15y2023i9p308-d1237351.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Prototyping a Hyperledger Fabric-Based Security Architecture for IoMT-Based Health Monitoring Systems

Author

Listed:
  • Filippos Pelekoudas-Oikonomou

    (Evotel Informática S.A., 27400 Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, Spain
    Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK)

  • José C. Ribeiro

    (Evotel Informática S.A., 27400 Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, Spain)

  • Georgios Mantas

    (Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK)

  • Georgia Sakellari

    (Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK)

  • Jonathan Gonzalez

    (Evotel Informática S.A., 27400 Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, Spain)

Abstract

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has risen significantly in recent years and has provided better quality of life by enabling IoMT-based health monitoring systems. Despite that fact, innovative security mechanisms are required to meet the security concerns of such systems effectively and efficiently. Additionally, the industry and the research community have anticipated that blockchain technology will be a disruptive technology that will be able to be integrated into innovative security solutions for IoMT networks since it has the potential to play a big role in: (a) enabling secure data transmission, (b) ensuring IoMT device security, and (c) enabling tamper-proof data storage. Therefore, the purpose of this research work is to design a novel lightweight blockchain-based security architecture for IoMT-based health monitoring systems leveraging the features of the Hyperledger Fabric (HF) Platform, its utilities. and its lightweight blockchain nature in order to: (i) ensure entity authentication, (ii) ensure data confidentiality, and (iii) enable a more energy-efficient blockchain-based security architecture for IoMT-based health monitoring systems while considering the limited resources of IoMT gateways. While security mechanisms for IoT utilizing HF do exist, to the best of our knowledge there is no specific HF-based architecture for IoMT-based health monitoring systems.

Suggested Citation

  • Filippos Pelekoudas-Oikonomou & José C. Ribeiro & Georgios Mantas & Georgia Sakellari & Jonathan Gonzalez, 2023. "Prototyping a Hyperledger Fabric-Based Security Architecture for IoMT-Based Health Monitoring Systems," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-22, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:15:y:2023:i:9:p:308-:d:1237351
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/15/9/308/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/15/9/308/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Carolina Del-Valle-Soto & Leonardo J. Valdivia & Juan Carlos López-Pimentel & Paolo Visconti, 2023. "Comparison of Collaborative and Cooperative Schemes in Sensor Networks for Non-Invasive Monitoring of People at Home," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(7), pages 1-22, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Carolina Del-Valle-Soto & Ramon A. Briseño & Leonardo J. Valdivia & Ramiro Velázquez & Juan Arturo Nolazco-Flores, 2023. "Non-Invasive Monitoring of Vital Signs for the Elderly Using Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Networks: Exploring the Impact on Sleep and Home Security," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-31, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:15:y:2023:i:9:p:308-:d:1237351. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.