TY - GEN
T1 - EPF
T2 - 54th Annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference: "Energizing Global Communications", GLOBECOM 2011
AU - Chen, Le
AU - Cao, Zhenfu
AU - Lu, Rongxing
AU - Liang, Xiaohui
AU - Shen, Xuemin
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this paper, we propose an event-aided packet forwarding (EPF) protocol, which enables patients to efficiently communicate with each other in privacy-preserving Mobile Healthcare Social Networks (MHSNs). Since patients with common illnesses often attend the same related activities, EPF makes use of these activities in forwarding illness-related messages to the target patients so that it can achieve high target patients coverage ratio. In addition, EPF also adopts predicate encryption to guarantee patient privacy and message confidentiality. Through security analysis, we demonstrate that EPF can effectively resist various attacks launched by adversaries, and ensure patient identity and illness privacy. Extensive simulations are also conducted to evaluate the performance of EPF in terms of average target patients coverage ratio, average number of packet copies, and average packet delay.
AB - In this paper, we propose an event-aided packet forwarding (EPF) protocol, which enables patients to efficiently communicate with each other in privacy-preserving Mobile Healthcare Social Networks (MHSNs). Since patients with common illnesses often attend the same related activities, EPF makes use of these activities in forwarding illness-related messages to the target patients so that it can achieve high target patients coverage ratio. In addition, EPF also adopts predicate encryption to guarantee patient privacy and message confidentiality. Through security analysis, we demonstrate that EPF can effectively resist various attacks launched by adversaries, and ensure patient identity and illness privacy. Extensive simulations are also conducted to evaluate the performance of EPF in terms of average target patients coverage ratio, average number of packet copies, and average packet delay.
KW - MHSN
KW - Packet forwarding
KW - Privacy-preserving
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84863128043
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84863128043#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134289
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134289
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863128043
SN - 9781424492688
T3 - GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
BT - 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2011
Y2 - 5 December 2011 through 9 December 2011
ER -