title: Analysis of Security Protocols for Mobile Healthcare.
abstract: Mobile Healthcare (mHealth) continues to improve because of significant improvements and the decreasing costs of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). mHealth is a medical and public health practice, which is supported by mobile devices (for example, smartphones) and, patient monitoring devices (for example, various types of wearable sensors, etc.). An mHealth system enables healthcare experts and professionals to have ubiquitous access to a patient's health data along with providing any ongoing medical treatment at any time, any place, and from any device. It also helps the patient requiring continuous medical monitoring to stay in touch with the appropriate medical staff and healthcare experts remotely. Thus, mHealth has become a major driving force in improving the health of citizens today. First, we discuss the security requirements, issues and threats to the mHealth system. We then present a taxonomy of recently proposed security protocols for mHealth system based on features supported and possible attacks, computation cost and communication cost. Our detailed taxonomy demonstrates the strength and weaknesses of recently proposed security protocols for the mHealth system. Finally, we identify some of the challenges in the area of security protocols for mHealth systems that still need to be addressed in the future to enable cost-effective, secure and robust mHealth systems.
authors.affiliation: Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 500 032, India.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wazid
authors.affiliation: College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 405 06, USA.
authors.forename: Sherali
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zeadally
authors.affiliation: Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 500 032, India. iitkgp.akdas@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ashok Kumar
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5196-9589
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, Chittoor 517 588, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Vanga
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Odelu
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D016494:Computer Security / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000068997:Smartphone; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D059015:Wireless Technology
keywords: Attack; Communication cost; Computation cost; Mobile device; Mobile healthcare; Protocol; Security; Threat