Collaborative and secure transmission of medical data applied to mobile healthcare

BioMedical Engineering OnLine

Zhigang Chen¹  Fang Cui¹  Weimin Chen² 

[1] 0000 0001 0379 7164, grid.216417.7, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410075, Changsha, China;0000 0001 0379 7164, grid.216417.7, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410075, Changsha, China;0000 0004 1800 0236, grid.464328.f, School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, 413000, Yiyang, China;

关键词: Mobile healthcare;    Opportunistic networks;    Medical data;    Circle of friends;    Integer wavelet transform;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12938-019-0674-x

来源: publisher

【 摘 要 】

PurposeWe propose a collaborative and secure transmission scheme in order to safely and efficiently transmit medical data and provide telemedicine services, lighten the load on wireless access networks, and improve the quality of medical treatment such as surgery.MethodsFirst, the transmission technology based on opportunistic networks is used to upload patient physiological data and share medical information. Second, we propose a trusted transfer scheme based on the circle of friends, which is constructed with historical encounters and social features of nodes. This scheme takes the forwarding policy of each packet by close friends to effectively prevent the participation of strangers, and avoid privacy issues and deal with selfish behaviors. At the same time, the structure of friend circle is beneficial to the improvement of medical data transmission. Third, we present a lossless compression scheme with less computation and higher compression ratio to reduce the amount of medical data and improve the performance of the transmission.ResultsThe experimental results show that the proposed scheme is effective and has good transmission performance while ensuring the safety and reliability of media data.ConclusionThe mobile healthcare faces some challenges such as the vastness of medical data and sensitivity of patient information. Using opportunistic networks to transmit medical data in mobile healthcare is a good solution, which can effectively divert and offload the data traffic of mobile Internet. The structure of friend circles and the technology of data compression are beneficial to safely and efficiently transmit the patient’s physiological parameters and medical health information.

【 授权许可】

CC BY