E-Healthcare Systems: Integrated Sensing, Computing, and Semantic Communication with Physical Layer Security

TL;DR

This paper presents an integrated framework for smart healthcare that combines sensing, computing, and semantic communication, optimizing data transmission, sensing accuracy, and security while considering device capabilities and GDPR compliance.

Contribution

It introduces a novel ISCSC framework that jointly optimizes beamforming and semantic extraction for healthcare applications, incorporating physical layer security and GDPR considerations.

Findings

Enhanced data rates and sensing accuracy demonstrated in simulations

Effective security measures ensuring GDPR compliance

Framework adaptable to IoRT device computing constraints

Abstract

This paper introduces an integrated sensing, computing, and semantic communication (ISCSC) framework tailored for smart healthcare systems. The framework is evaluated in the context of smart healthcare, optimising the transmit beamforming matrix and semantic extraction ratio for improved data rates, sensing accuracy, and general data protection regulation (GDPR) compliance, while considering IoRT device computing capabilities. Semantic metrics such as semantic transmission rate and semantic secrecy rate are derived to evaluate data rate performance and GDPR risk, respectively, while the Cram\'er-Rao Bound (CRB) assesses sensing performance. Simulation results demonstrate the framework's effectiveness in ensuring reliable sensing, high data rates, and secure communication.