Developing a secure remote patient monitoring system

Abstract

Cloud computing offers and allows users to use infrastructure, platforms, and software as services. With the advent of mobile computing, and cloud computing supporting mobile services, a merger of both these computing has opened a new domain of mobile cloud computing. Predictably, this has given way to a large number of issues coming forward, first and foremost among them, being, security. This paper develops a protocol suite that takes care of an entire mobile cloud computing (MCC) system with respect to a specific application area. Patient monitoring and providing subsequent medical care in remote areas is a problem. The proposal presented here considers the application of remote patient monitoring. The protocol considers remote user authentication and subsequently develop secure access to data retained using cloud infrastructure. A cloud service provider is considered that manages users and their requests.