Title :
Privacy and security control architecture for ubiquitous RFID healthcare system in wireless sensor networks
Author :
Song, Won Jay ; Son, Sang H. ; Choi, Munkee ; Kang, Minho
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we have designed and modeled the ubiquitous RFID healthcare system architecture and framework workflow, which are described by six classified core players or subsystems. They are consisting of the patient and wearable ECG sensor, network service, healthcare service, emergency service, and PKI service providers, whose individual private and public keys should be stored on their smart card and be used to enhance security level control for the patient´s medical privacy. All of the patient and providers in the proposed security control architecture need suitable secure private and public keys in order to access to ECG medical raw data and diagnosis results with RFID/GPS tracking information for emergency service. By enforcing the requirements of necessary keys among the patient and providers, the patient´s ECG data can be successfully protected and be effectively controlled over the open medical directory service. Consequently, the proposed architecture for ubiquitous RFID healthcare system is appropriate to build up medical privacy policies in ubiquitous sensor networking environments.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; data privacy; electrocardiography; health care; medical computing; patient care; private key cryptography; public key cryptography; radiofrequency identification; smart cards; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; GPS; PKI service providers; emergency service; framework workflow; healthcare service; medical privacy; network service; open medical directory service; patient; privacy control; private keys; public keys; security control; smart card; tracking information; ubiquitous RFID healthcare system; wearable ECG sensor; wireless sensor networks; Control systems; Data security; Electrocardiography; Emergency services; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Privacy; Public key; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2006. ICCE '06. 2006 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9459-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2006.1598399