Softwarization of Internet of Things Infrastructure for Secure and Smart Healthcare

TL;DR

This paper introduces a flexible, secure, and privacy-preserving softwarized IoT infrastructure for smart healthcare, integrating advanced networking, virtualization, and security techniques across IoT, fog, and cloud domains.

Contribution

It presents a novel platform combining M2M messaging, rule-based beacons, and blockchain-based security for smart healthcare IoT deployments.

Findings

Enhanced security and privacy for healthcare data.

Seamless data management with M2M messaging and beacons.

Integration of fog and cloud for decision fusion.

Abstract

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.