An Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Application: A Case Study of a Diabetic Patient

Abstract

We provide in this paper, a secure authentication protocol based on Restful approach for monitoring the diabetic patient. We combine information theory and restful API in the security of smart healthcare monitoring application to address the issue of emergency situation. On the one hand, there is not an unified basic theory which completely covers all aspects of IoT security. Inspired by Shannon’s information theory, we attempt to construct a general theory to solve security problem which is suitable to IoT security. On other hand, a medical IoT device publishes the physical condition (such as blood glucose) of a diabetic patient to a remote healthcare center periodically, with limited processing and memory capabilities. So, Restful web service has been employed to make data accessible by both local and remote user to monitor physiological parameters. In line with, the restful (Request/ Response) paradigm on HTTP messages has been exploited in WBAN design, by leveraging our authentication protocol.