AARIN: Affordable, accurate, reliable and innovative mechanism to protect a medical cyber-physical system using blockchain technology

Abstract

The enhancement (in the past decade) in electronics devices/technology, a rise in most of the accidents concerning security and surveillance intruding the private lives of the users question the existing systems being used to combat this challenge wherein, the third-parties gather and handle large amounts of individual details. As part of the constant evolution of the cyber physical system architecture, one of the goals of our system is to reduce the latency time for enrollment of new information. Generally, the efficiency and benefit of a Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) depends heavily on interconnection of individual devices or nodes. Exchange of data and information relevant to an overall task or functionality is the key to many applications such as smart grids, smart cities, and many others. Trustworthiness of data is needed to make such systems (especially in MCPS systems) successful. To be able to fulfill policies to guarantee the safety of all entities within a Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS) and to provide security measures to enforce these cryptographic solutions have to be embedded. This paper describes a decentralized e-healthcare application framework for personal data management that ensures that users own and access their data. This work proposes a novel mechanism to secure Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS), i.e., as an automated access-control manager (including building trust in a third party). This work also integrates some features in security building blocks in ultra-small devices to provide essential properties to secure embedded systems.

Keywords

• Medical cyber physical system
• Cyber security
• Blockchain technology
• Security
• Privacy
• Innovation