hQChain: Leveraging towards blockchain and queueing model for secure smart connected health

Abstract

Blockchain facilitates a broad spectrum of applications such as transaction of cryptocurrency, catering to financial services, designing, and constructing smart cities and so on. It has astounding benefits including accountability, consistency, and decentralization. Smart healthcare can be exemplified as utilizing propitious electronic technology safeguarded with blockchain for superior diagnosis of the disorders, improvised and cost-effective treatment of the patients, and enhanced quality of lives. Since blockchain in smart healthcare architecture hosts substantial amount of patient data, queueing models play a pivotal role to efficiently process the data. This paper highlights the concepts of blockchain, then delves into the smart healthcare architecture, and then deals with the several queueing models that already exist. It proposes the model (i.e., hQChain), which is inculcating M1,b/Mb/1 queueing model into blockchain-based smart healthcare architecture. It offers a queuing mathematical and analytical model to analyze and study the performance measurement of hQChain model.