A Framework of Blockchain-Based Security for WBANs

Abstract

Purposed to collect and store human physiological data, WBANs as a telemedicine system play a significant role in sensor networks. The complex network environment presents a formidable challenge to the stability of the system and the security of the database. The traditional centralized architecture is to store the registration data of the sensor node and the patient's physiological data in the hub node. When the hub node is subjected to Denial of Service attacks (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS), there will be a single point of failure, so that the sensor node cannot establish a communication connection with the hub node. In this paper, a cloud server layer architecture based on blockchain technology is proposed for WBNAs to ensure system stability and patient data security. Meanwhile, Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) scheme is used to ensure patient physiological data safety.