The advancements in sensing technologies,information processing,and communication schemes have revolutionized the healthcare sector.Electronic Healthcare Records(EHR)facilitate the patients,doctors,hospitals,and other...The advancements in sensing technologies,information processing,and communication schemes have revolutionized the healthcare sector.Electronic Healthcare Records(EHR)facilitate the patients,doctors,hospitals,and other stakeholders to maintain valuable data and medical records.The traditional EHRs are based on cloud-based architectures and are susceptible to multiple cyberattacks.A single attempt of a successful Denial of Service(DoS)attack can compromise the complete healthcare system.This article introduces a secure and immutable blockchain-based framework for the Internet of Medical Things(IoMT)to address the stated challenges.The proposed architecture is on the idea of a lightweight private blockchain-based network that facilitates the users and hospitals to perform multiple healthcare-related operations in a secure and trustworthy manner.The efficacy of the proposed framework is evaluated in the context of service execution time and throughput.The experimental outcomes indicate that the proposed design attained lower service execution time and higher throughput under different control parameters.展开更多
The use of multimedia data sharing has drastically increased in the past few decades due to the revolutionary improvements in communication technologies such as the 4th generation(4G)and 5th generation(5G)etc.Research...The use of multimedia data sharing has drastically increased in the past few decades due to the revolutionary improvements in communication technologies such as the 4th generation(4G)and 5th generation(5G)etc.Researchers have proposed many image encryption algorithms based on the classical random walk and chaos theory for sharing an image in a secure way.Instead of the classical random walk,this paper proposes the quantum walk to achieve high image security.Classical random walk exhibits randomness due to the stochastic transitions between states,on the other hand,the quantum walk is more random and achieve randomness due to the superposition,and the interference of the wave functions.The proposed image encryption scheme is evaluated using extensive security metrics such as correlation coefficient,entropy,histogram,time complexity,number of pixels change rate and unified average intensity etc.All experimental results validate the proposed scheme,and it is concluded that the proposed scheme is highly secured,lightweight and computationally efficient.In the proposed scheme,the values of the correlation coefficient,entropy,mean square error(MSE),number of pixels change rate(NPCR),unified average change intensity(UACI)and contrast are 0.0069,7.9970,40.39,99.60%,33.47 and 10.4542 respectively.展开更多
文摘The advancements in sensing technologies,information processing,and communication schemes have revolutionized the healthcare sector.Electronic Healthcare Records(EHR)facilitate the patients,doctors,hospitals,and other stakeholders to maintain valuable data and medical records.The traditional EHRs are based on cloud-based architectures and are susceptible to multiple cyberattacks.A single attempt of a successful Denial of Service(DoS)attack can compromise the complete healthcare system.This article introduces a secure and immutable blockchain-based framework for the Internet of Medical Things(IoMT)to address the stated challenges.The proposed architecture is on the idea of a lightweight private blockchain-based network that facilitates the users and hospitals to perform multiple healthcare-related operations in a secure and trustworthy manner.The efficacy of the proposed framework is evaluated in the context of service execution time and throughput.The experimental outcomes indicate that the proposed design attained lower service execution time and higher throughput under different control parameters.
文摘The use of multimedia data sharing has drastically increased in the past few decades due to the revolutionary improvements in communication technologies such as the 4th generation(4G)and 5th generation(5G)etc.Researchers have proposed many image encryption algorithms based on the classical random walk and chaos theory for sharing an image in a secure way.Instead of the classical random walk,this paper proposes the quantum walk to achieve high image security.Classical random walk exhibits randomness due to the stochastic transitions between states,on the other hand,the quantum walk is more random and achieve randomness due to the superposition,and the interference of the wave functions.The proposed image encryption scheme is evaluated using extensive security metrics such as correlation coefficient,entropy,histogram,time complexity,number of pixels change rate and unified average intensity etc.All experimental results validate the proposed scheme,and it is concluded that the proposed scheme is highly secured,lightweight and computationally efficient.In the proposed scheme,the values of the correlation coefficient,entropy,mean square error(MSE),number of pixels change rate(NPCR),unified average change intensity(UACI)and contrast are 0.0069,7.9970,40.39,99.60%,33.47 and 10.4542 respectively.
