Abstract
Existing implanted medical devices often do not use any form of authentication due to resource constraints, resulting in unauthorized access or programming of devices. In this paper, we introduce Medical Implant Consent (MedIC), a non-embedded, blockchain-based solution that provides authentication and authorization according to patient consent. We design protocols for doctors to obtain digital medical licenses and for patients to obtain and verify digital patient consent. We evaluate the performance and cost of our solution, using time measurements and memory footprint of relevant operations. We also enumerate our cryptographic operations and compute the energy with benchmarked measurements. Our results demonstrate a memory footprint of 4436 MB and timing delay of 200 ms to authenticate according to our patient's consent.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 847-856 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Procedia Computer Science |
Volume | 171 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2020 |
Event | 3rd International Conference on Computing and Network Communications, CoCoNet 2019 - Trivandrum, Kerala, India Duration: Dec 18 2019 → Dec 21 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
- authentication
- blockchain
- implantable medical devices
- medical device security
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science