BSN-Care: A Secure IoT-Based Modern Healthcare System Using Body Sensor Network

TLDR

Internet of Things technologies, especially body sensor networks, enable real‑time patient monitoring and health data management but expose patient privacy to security risks. The paper identifies key security requirements for BSN‑based modern healthcare systems. The authors propose BSN‑Care, a secure IoT‑based healthcare architecture that addresses those requirements.

Abstract

Advances in information and communication technologies have led to the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT). In the modern health care environment, the usage of IoT technologies brings convenience of physicians and patients, since they are applied to various medical areas (such as real-time monitoring, patient information management, and healthcare management). The body sensor network (BSN) technology is one of the core technologies of IoT developments in healthcare system, where a patient can be monitored using a collection of tiny-powered and lightweight wireless sensor nodes. However, the development of this new technology in healthcare applications without considering security makes patient privacy vulnerable. In this paper, at first, we highlight the major security requirements in BSN-based modern healthcare system. Subsequently, we propose a secure IoT-based healthcare system using BSN, called BSN-Care, which can efficiently accomplish those requirements.