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A Secure Wireless Body Area Network for E-Health Application Using Blockchain

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The need to monitor the vital signals of the human body for the early diagnosis of diseases has led to the emergence of wireless body area networks (WBAN) for E-Health. One of the most important problems associated with this technology is to secure the user data over the internet and to keep it safe and inaccessible by unauthorized persons or manipulated by any person maintaining the privacy of the patient. In this paper, a system to secure patient data was proposed by employing the Blockchain technology to save user data and privacy, and cryptography algorithms were used to secure the data transmission channel between the patient and the E-health service provider. The results showed that the proposed system fulfilled the security objectives, namely confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation, in addition to protecting the privacy of the patient to maintain patient data from penetration.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq

    Mohammed Dakhel & Soukaena Hassan

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Dakhel, M., Hassan, S. (2020). A Secure Wireless Body Area Network for E-Health Application Using Blockchain. In: Khalaf, M., Al-Jumeily, D., Lisitsa, A. (eds) Applied Computing to Support Industry: Innovation and Technology. ACRIT 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1174. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38752-5_31

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