Emerging sensor-cloud technology for pervasive services and applications

This is an Editorial article for the Special Issue on "Emerging Sensor-Cloud Technology for Pervasive Services and Applications" of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

An Authentication and Access Control Model for Healthcare based Cloud Services

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are used as an efficient and effective method of exchanging patients’ health information with doctors and other key stakeholders in the health sector to obtain improved patient treatment decisions and diagnoses. As a result, questions regarding the security of sensitive user data are highlighted. To encourage people to move their sensitive health records to cloud networks, a secure authentication and access control mechanism that protects users’ data should be established. Furthermore, authentication and access control schemes are essential in the protection of health data, as numerous responsibilities exist to ensure security and privacy in a network. So, the main goal of our suggested solution is to maintain a secure authentication and access control mechanism for health cloud data. Thus, in this work, Security Secret Key Provider (SSKP) phase is proposed for the E-healthcare-based cloud that consists of two parts. The first is an authentication scheme that is Security Secret Key (SSK) and the second is a modular access control mechanism. We explain the methodology of the proposed approach through appropriate evaluation results, which improves system security and performance by minimizing the time spent to get authentication and access the data. Simulation results indicate that our approach is significantly more effective than existing research.

Cloud-Based Collaborative Media Service Framework for HealthCare

With the increasing growth of media cloud technologies, web service technologies, and smartphones equipped sensors, a number of collaborative media services are being built for ubiquitous user access. Currently, collaborative services are being used in several areas like healthcare, defense, education, and so forth. However, due to the challenge of providing such service to users in terms of computations, communications, processing, and storage, there is a growing need for an infrastructure to have on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, storages, servers, applications, and services). Cloud computing is such a paradigm or infrastructure to provide configurable platform to support the collaborative service. In this paper, we present the corresponding framework of collaborative media service for efficient collaboration between caregivers and healthcare professionals. The experimental results not only showed our solution is more efficient than the similar system but also proved that our solution can work well for web service-based collaborative environment