Secure and Privacy-Preserving Smart Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

Smart healthcare technologies are becoming more and more profoundly and ubiquitously integrated in the fabric of wearable and implantable devices used to monitor and diagnose a wide range of medical conditions to enhance our lifestyles and save lives. Unfortunately, smart healthcare applications are progressively incorporated into untrusted and insecure physical environments, and thus they are significantly vulnerable to new cyber- and physical-system attackers. Standard security techniques may not suit extreme innovative healthcare applications requiring high performance (low power, small area overhead, etc.) and competing for computational and robust security solutions. Therefore, with these security challenges, the next generation of intelligent healthcare technology will need to be protected and trusted to provide life-critical roles, relying on robust security mechanisms before launching spontaneous or combined cyber-attacks.

This Special Issue calls for novel and state-of-the-art solutions to enable trust in innovative healthcare applications and propose new efficient security solutions for wearable and implantable medical devices. For that, the issue seeks papers with a proposed secure and privacy-preserving solution that constructs imminent healthcare applications against the emerging cyber and physical attacks without significantly degrading system performance.

Dr. Fathi Amsaad
Dr. Noor Zaman
Dr. Razaque Abdul
Guest Editors

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• wireless sensor network (WSN) for secure smart healthcare
• security and privacy of internet of medical things (IoMT) applications
• mobile and edge computing for security and privacy of smart healthcare
• hardware-assisted security for trusted healthcare systems
• privacy-preserving blockchain-enabled schemes for secure Smart Healthcare
• AI-enabled approaches for secure IoT-based medical applications
• secure ad hoc-based and internet of medical networks
• big data privacy-preserving models
• cloud computing for secure and private big medical data
• lightweight cryptography for secure medical devices
• federated and machine learning techniques for IoMT security