Softwarization of Internet of Things Infrastructure for Secure and Smart Healthcare
This work addresses the need for secure and scalable healthcare IoT systems, though it appears incremental by combining existing technologies like Blockchain and virtualization.
The paper tackles the challenge of deploying secure and privacy-preserving IoT infrastructure for smart healthcare by proposing an agile softwarized platform that integrates networking, virtualization, Blockchain, Tor, and message brokers, resulting in a flexible and cost-effective solution for data management and decision-making across IoT, fog, and cloud domains.
We propose an agile softwarized infrastructure for flexible, cost effective, secure and privacy preserving deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) for smart healthcare applications and services. It integrates state-of-the-art networking and virtualization techniques across IoT, fog and cloud domains, employing Blockchain, Tor and message brokers to provide security and privacy for patients and healthcare providers. We propose a novel platform using Machine-to-Machine (M2M) messaging and rule-based beacons for seamless data management and discuss the role of data and decision fusion in the cloud and the fog, respectively, for smart healthcare applications and services.