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The digitization of patient health information has brought many benefits and challenges for both the patient and doctor. But security and privacy preservation have remained important challenges for wireless health monitoring systems. Such concerns may result in reluctance and skepticism towards health systems by patients. The reason for this skepticism is mainly attributed to the lack of assurances about the way patient health information is handled and the implications that may result from it on patients’ privacy. This paper proposes an identity-based privacy preservation framework over u-healthcare systems. Our framework is based on the concepts of identity-based cryptography and non-interactive key agreement scheme using bilinear pairing. The proposed framework achieves authentication, patient anonymity, un-traceability, patient data privacy and session key secrecy, and resistance against impersonation and replay attacks.
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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (NRF-2010-0021575) and was partially supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (NIPA-2012- H0301-12-2004) supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency).
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Mtonga, K., Yang, H., Yoon, EJ., Kim, H. (2013). Identity-Based Privacy Preservation Framework over u-Healthcare System. In: Park, J., Ng, JY., Jeong, HY., Waluyo, B. (eds) Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 240. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6738-6_26
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