Internet of Medical Things-Based Secure and Energy-Efficient Framework for Health Care

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a collection of medical equipment and software that can help patients get better care. The purpose of this study is to improve the security of data collected through remote health monitoring of patients utilizing Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). Asymmetric cryptography techniques may be used to assure the security of such sensor networks. For communication between different IoMT devices and a remote server, the safe CoAP is compatible with the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol for creating a secure session using existing algorithms such as Lightweight Establishment of Secure Session. The DTLS layer of CoAP, in contrast, has shortcomings in key control, session establishment, and multicast message exchange. As a consequence, for IoMT communication, the creation of an efficient protocol for safe CoAP session establishment is needed. Thus, to solve the existing problems related to key management and multicast security in CoAP, we have proposed an efficient and secure communication technique to establish a secure session key between IoMT devices and distant servers using lightweight Energy-Efficient and Secure CoAP Elliptic Curve Cryptography ((ESCEC2)-S-2). The advantage of using (ESCEC2)-S-2 over other identification methods such as Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) is its compact key size, which allows it to use a smaller key size. This article also compares these algorithms on parameters such as time spent generating keys, signature generation, and verification of (ESCEC2)-S-2 and RSA algorithms, as well as energy consumption and radio duty cycle, to see if they are compatible in constrained environments.

Automated summary

The study aims to enhance the security of data collected from remote health monitoring devices within the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) by utilizing CoAP and DTLS protocols to establish secure sessions. Proposed efficient and secure communication technique using ESCEC2-S-2 for key establishment between IoMT devices and distant servers seeks to address existing issues related to key management and multicast security in CoAP.