Measurement: Sensors (Dec 2023)
Quantum spider prioritized routing and Cramer Shoup cryptosecured data transmission in wireless body area network
Abstract
The wireless body area network (WBAN) offers healthcare applications for remote patient monitoring. In healthcare, prioritizing patient data has a high impact on the energy usage, delays, and congestion involved in routing. Energy usage, battery life, and absorption rates are current research obstacles in WBAN. The path loss ratio and residual energy were generally the focus of attention during data transfer. Despite this, compromised transaction security caused serious problems with the delivery of vital health data. The Quantum Spider Cramer Shoup Public Key Cryptosystem (QS-CSPKC), which is proposed in this study, is an optimized priority-aware (for many patients) and transaction security technique for vital sensed data in WBAN, selects the optimum energy efficient and reliable path to assure secure data transfer. The proposed QS-CSPKC method employs Dual Contention Access Periods (DCAPs) for managing regular data (i.e., normal sensed or low priority data) and life-threatening data (i.e., abnormal sensed data or high priority data). After prioritizing, the Quantum Spider Monkey Optimized Routing algorithm is used to allocate an optimal shortest route for normal low priority data (i.e., with 0 as the quantum value) and an energy-efficient emergency route for critical high priority data (i.e., with 1 as the quantum value). In addition, to prevent illegal access during transmission, security keys are generated using the Cramer Shoup public key cryptosystem. By using this model, only legitimate users have access to information for which they are authorized. The evaluation results were validated through simulations, showing that the proposed QS-CSPKC method performs efficient routing and secure data transmission better than conventional techniques in terms of throughput, packet loss, average power consumption, and energy use.
