Modeling and simulation of identification protocol for wireless medical devices in healthcare system communication

Abstract

The digital era is changing the nature of health care delivery system with the integration of Information Technology‘s potential to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care. Medical devices may be connected on wireless and wired networks and communicate with nearby receivers that are connected to landline networks, cellular systems or broadband facilities that provide more ubiquitous coverage of connectivity, allowing uninterrupted monitoring of patients in transit by accessing the Internet. This promise of universal connectivity allow data availability service from the high-end systems such as routers, gateways, firewalls, and web servers to the low-end systems such as smart phone, tablet, etc…Hence, security has become an essential part of today’s computing world regarding the ubiquitous nature of the entities and wireless technology evolution. This paper presents a framework for Healthcare System Communication where wireless medical devices are challenged to an identification protocol procedure which enables negotiation between wireless medical devices and specify authorization requirements that must be met before accessing the network and patients ‘data. To illustrate the feasibility of the work to real world protocols, we simulate the scheme using Scyther tool by applying the IEEE-802.16-2004 PKM protocols for WiMAX protocol standards.