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. 2023 Jul 15;10(7):839.
doi: 10.3390/bioengineering10070839.

Securing Group Patient Communication in 6G-Aided Dynamic Ubiquitous Healthcare with Real-Time Mobile DNA Sequencing

Tuan-Vinh Le  1   2
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Securing Group Patient Communication in 6G-Aided Dynamic Ubiquitous Healthcare with Real-Time Mobile DNA Sequencing

Tuan-Vinh Le. Bioengineering (Basel). .

Abstract

(1) Background: With an advanced technique, third-generation sequencing (TGS) provides services with long deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) reads and super short sequencing time. It enables onsite mobile DNA sequencing solutions for enabling ubiquitous healthcare (U-healthcare) services with modern mobile technology and smart entities in the internet of living things (IoLT). Due to some strict requirements, 6G technology can efficiently facilitate communications in a truly intelligent U-healthcare IoLT system. (2) Research problems: conventional single user-server architecture is not able to enable group conversations where "multiple patients-server" communication or "patient-patient" communication in the group is required. The communications are carried out via the open Internet, which is not a trusted channel. Since heath data and medical information are very sensitive, security and privacy concerns in the communication systems have become extremely important. (3) Purpose: the author aims to propose a dynamic group-based patient-authenticated key distribution protocol for 6G-aided U-healthcare services enabled by mobile DNA sequencing. In the protocol, an authenticated common session key is distributed by the server to the patients. Using the key, patients in a healthcare group are allowed to securely connect with the service provider or with each other for specific purposes of communication. (4) Results: the group key distribution process is protected by a secure three-factor authentication mechanism along with an efficient sequencing-device-based single sign-on (SD-SSO) solution. Based on traceable information stored in the server database, the proposed approach can provide patient-centered services which are available on multiple mobile devices. Security robustness of the proposed protocol is proven by well-known verification tools and a detailed semantic discussion. Performance evaluation shows that the protocol provides more functionality and incurs a reasonable overhead in comparison with the existing works.

Keywords: 6G technology; DNA-reading biosensor; biometric authentication; dynamic group patient communication; elliptic curve cryptography (ECC); internet of living things (IoLT); patient-centric care; sequencing-device-based single sign-on (SD-SSO); third-generation sequencing (TGS); ubiquitous healthcare (U-healthcare).

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Figures

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New innovative sequencers of the Oxford Nanopore [8].
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Architecture model of the proposed protocol.
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Registration procedure of the proposed protocol.
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Figure 4
Login and authentication procedure of the proposed protocol.
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Figure 5
Synchronizable key-derivation procedure of the proposed protocol.
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Figure 6
Password and biometrics change procedure of the proposed protocol.
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Graphical description of the comparison of computation overhead [28,29,30,31,36,37].
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Figure 8
Computational comparison when the number of servers gradually increases [28,29,30,31,36,37].
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Figure 9
Graphical description of the comparison of communication overhead [28,29,30,31,36,37].
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