Efficient and Secure Key Management and Authentication Scheme for WBSNs Using CP-ABE and Consortium Blockchain

2022

Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) pose significant security and privacy risks. The Medical Server (MS) will only allow legitimate stakeholders access to confidential patient medical records when successful mutual authentication between all registered users and the MS has been confirmed using preset secret attributes. This paper proposes a novel approach to overcome the security and privacy problems in WBSNs by using CP-ABE and a consortium blockchain for key management and authentication. In this paper, a fixed-size session key is computed by utilizing several attribute base rules and AND/OR logic gate combinations. IEEE 802.15.6 is also used to transmit the encoded patient data from th…