A lightweight authentication protocol for healthcare cloud computing

ZHANG XIAOWEI; AZIZOL BIN HJ ABDULLAH; MOHD TAUFIK ABDULLAH; ABDULLAH BIN MUHAMMED

Author(s)

ZHANG XIAOWEI Department of Communication Technology and Network, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor Serdang 43400, Malaysia

AZIZOL BIN HJ ABDULLAH Department of Communication Technology and Network, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor Serdang 43400, Malaysia

MOHD TAUFIK ABDULLAH Department of Communication Technology and Network, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor Serdang 43400, Malaysia

ABDULLAH BIN MUHAMMED Department of Communication Technology and Network, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor Serdang 43400, Malaysia

Abstract

The obstacle of realizing a widely applied healthcare cloud, which take personal healthcare records (PHRs) as core data, is the safety and privacy of PHRs have not been ensured when it was sharing by treatment members. Fortunately, a secure multi-owner sharing data (MONA) model which based on cloud computing solves secure sharing problem perfectly. However, the research and simulation of MONA have confirmed that the client user in MONA model bears heavy workload, which making it difficult to practically apply in health environment in which various resource restricted portable devices has being widely used by healthcare workers. Therefore, we modified the structure of MONA moderately and a protocol named password authentication key exchange based on verification element for lightweight client (LC-VE-PAKE) was proposed, which can transfer client-side workload securely to reduce its storage and computing cost to realized lightweight client-side. Experimental results show that the optimized model applying with LC-VEPAKE protocol is a good solution for implementing healthcare cloud computing.

Publication Details

Page(s) 3406-3420

DOI DOI not available

Published Journal: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Volume: 100, Issue: 10, Year: 2022

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Keywords

Security, Lightweight Client-side, Sharing Data Files, Healthcare Cloud, Personal Healthcare Records, Password Authentication Key Exchange