• 한국인공지능학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2023

The creativity of thesis is that the significance of cyber security challenges in blockchain. The variety of enterprises, including those in the medical market, are the targets of cyberattacks. Hospitals and clinics are only two examples of medical facilities that are easy targets for cybercriminals, along with IoT-based medical devices like pacemakers. Cyberattacks in the medical field not only put patients' lives in danger but also have the potential to expose private and sensitive information. Reviewing and looking at the present and historical flaws and vulnerabilities in the blockchain-based IoT and medical institutions' equipment is crucial as they are sensitive, relevant, and of a medical character. This study aims to investigate recent and current weaknesses in medical equipment, of blockchain-based IoT, and institutions. Medical security systems are becoming increasingly crucial in blockchain-based IoT medical devices and digital adoption more broadly. It is gaining importance as a standalone medical device. Currently the use of software in medical market is growing exponentially and many countries have already set guidelines for quality control. The achievements of the thesis are medical equipment of blockchain-based IoT no longer exist in a vacuum, thanks to technical improvements and the emergence of electronic health records (EHRs). Increased EHR use among providers, as well as the demand for integration and connection technologies to improve clinical workflow, patient care solutions, and overall hospital operations, will fuel significant growth in the blockchain-based IoT market for linked medical devices. The need for blockchain technology and IoT-based medical device to enhance their health IT infrastructure and design and development techniques will only get louder in the future. Blockchain technology will be essential in the future of cybersecurity, because blockchain technology can be significantly improved with the cybersecurity adoption of IoT devices, i.e., via remote monitoring, reducing waiting time for emergency rooms, track assets, etc. This paper sheds the light on the benefits of the blockchain-based IoT market.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.261-269
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• 2023

We propose to design a Holochain-based security and privacy protection system for resource-constrained IoT healthcare systems. Through analysis and performance evaluation, the proposed system confirmed that these characteristics operate effectively in the IoT healthcare environment. The system proposed in this paper consists of four main layers aimed at secure collection, transmission, storage, and processing of important medical data in IoT healthcare environments. The first PERCEPTION layer consists of various IoT devices, such as wearable devices, sensors, and other medical devices. These devices collect patient health data and pass it on to the network layer. The second network connectivity layer assigns an IP address to the collected data and ensures that the data is transmitted reliably over the network. Transmission takes place via standardized protocols, which ensures data reliability and availability. The third distributed cloud layer is a distributed data storage based on Holochain that stores important medical information collected from resource-limited IoT devices. This layer manages data integrity and access control, and allows users to share data securely. Finally, the fourth application layer provides useful information and services to end users, patients and healthcare professionals. The structuring and presentation of data and interaction between applications are managed at this layer. This structure aims to provide security, privacy, and resource efficiency suitable for IoT healthcare systems, in contrast to traditional centralized or blockchain-based systems. We design and propose a Holochain-based security and privacy protection system through a better IoT healthcare system.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to transform patient care by enhancing data collection, analysis, and management through medical sensors and wearable devices. However, the convergence of IoT device vulnerabilities and the sensitivity of healthcare data raises significant data integrity and privacy concerns. In response, this research introduces the Smart-Coord system, a practical and affordable solution for securing healthcare IoT. Smart-Coord leverages blockchain technology and coordinate-based access management to fortify healthcare IoT. It employs IPFS for immutable data storage and intelligent Solidity Ethereum contracts for data integrity and confidentiality, creating a hierarchical, AES-CBC-secured data transmission protocol from IoT devices to blockchain repositories. Our technique uses a unique coordinate system to embed confidentiality and integrity regulations into a single access control model, dictating data access and transfer based on subject-object pairings in a coordinate plane. This dual enforcement technique governs and secures the flow of healthcare IoT information. With its implementation on the Matic network, the Smart-Coord system's computational efficiency and cost-effectiveness are unparalleled. Smart-Coord boasts significantly lower transaction costs and data operation processing times than other blockchain networks, making it a practical and affordable solution. Smart-Coord holds the promise of enhancing IoT-based healthcare system security by managing sensitive health data in a scalable, efficient, and secure manner. The Smart-Coord framework heralds a new era in healthcare IoT adoption, expertly managing data integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility to ensure a secure, reliable digital environment for patient data management.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.613-625
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• 2019

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices have greatly influenced many industries and one of them is healthcare where wearable devices started to track all your daily activities for better health monitoring accuracy and even down to tracking daily food intake in some cases. With the amounts of data that are being tracked and shared between from these devices, questions were raised on how to uphold user's data privacy when data is shared between these IoT devices and third party. With the blockchain platforms started to mature since its inception, the technology can be implemented according to a variety of use case scenarios. In this paper, we present a system architecture based on the healthcare system and IoT network by leveraging on multiple blockchain networks as the medium in between that should enable users to have direct authority on data accessibility of their shared data. We provide proof of concept implementation and highlight the results from our testing to show how the efficiency and scalability of the healthcare system improved without having a significant impact on the performance of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) that mostly affected by the previous solution since these solutions directly connected to a public blockchain network and which resulted in significant delays and high cost of operation when a large amount of data or complicated functions are involved.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.351-357
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• 2021

분산 환경에서 다양하게 사용되고 있는 IoT 장치는 의료·환경·교통·바이오·공공장소 등 사용 분야가 다양해지면서 IoT 장치에서 송·수신되는 데이터의 중요도가 점점 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 IoT 데이터의 신뢰성을 보장하기 위한 방법으로 수 많은 데이터들을 다양한 중요 속성별로 분류·처리하도록 오토인코더 기반의 IoT 연계 처리 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 오토인코더 기반의 IoT 연계 처리를 위해서 IoT 데이터를 특성별로 블록체인으로 묶어 처리하도록 IoT 데이터별로 상관관계 지수를 사용한다. 제안 기법은 IoT 데이터의 신뢰성을 보장하기 위해서 상관관계 지수에 적용된 블록체인 기반의 n-계층 구조로 확장 운영한다. 또한, 제안 기법은 IoT 데이터의 상관관계 지수에 따라 IoT 수집 데이터에 가중치를 적용하여 IoT 데이터를 선택할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 실시간으로 IoT 데이터의 무결성을 검증하는 비용을 낮출 수 있다. 제안 기법은 n-계층 구조로 IoT 데이터를 확장할 수 있도록 IoT 데이터의 처리 비용을 유지한다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.27-42
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• 2023

클라우드 서비스와 IoT 기술의 발전은 클라우드 환경을 급격하게 변화시켰으며, 포그 컴퓨팅 그리고 F2C(Fog-to-Cloud)라는 새로운 개념으로 진화시켰다. 그러나 이기종의 클라우드/포그 레이어가 통합됨으로써, 최종 사용자 및 에지 장치에 대한 접근 제어 및 보안 관리의 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문은 의료 응급 상황에 빠르게 대처할 수 있는 의료 정보 서비스 운용을 위하여 F2C 기반 IoT 스마트 헬스 모니터링 시스템 아키텍쳐를 설계하였다. 또한, 서비스 상호운용 시 사용자의 개인 건강 정보 및 센서 정보에 대한 보안을 강화하기 위하여 역할 기반 서비스 접근 제어 기술을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여, 블록체인을 통한 역할 등록 및 사용자 역할 토큰 발행 정보를 공유하여, 역할 기반 접근 제어가 이루어짐을 보였다. 최종 사용자는 가장 응답 시간이 빠른 장치로부터 서비스를 받을 수 있으며, 역할에 따른 서비스 접근 제어를 수행함으로써, 데이터에 대한 직접적인 접근을 최소화하고, 개인정보에 대한 보안성을 강화할 수 있다.