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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2025

IBS-ECDHE: A blockchain-enhanced lightweight protocol for secure cloud-IoT in biomedical HCPS.

Attiq Ur Rehman, Songfeng Lu, Muhammad Usman, Syed Atif Moqurrab, Gautam Srivastava, Joon Yoo, Hussain Al-Aqrabi

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Attiq Ur RehmanSchool of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 730074, China.
Songfeng LuSchool of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 730074, China.
Muhammad UsmanSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing, 100191, China.
Syed Atif MoqurrabSchool of Computing, Gachon University, 1342, Seongnam-daero, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, 13120, Korea.
Gautam SrivastavaDepartment of Mathematics & Computer Science, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada.
Joon YooSchool of Computing, Gachon University, 1342, Seongnam-daero, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, 13120, Korea.
Hussain Al-AqrabiFaculty of Computer Information Systems, Higher Colleges of Technology, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

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Abstract

The rapid adoption of cloud-Internet-of-Things (CIoT) systems in biomedical human-cyber-physical systems (HCPS) has raised significant concerns regarding data security, privacy, and scalability. To address these challenges specifically within healthcare environments, we propose a novel IBS-ECDHE framework that integrates Identity-Based Signatures (IBS) and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral (ECDHE) key exchange to provide robust and lightweight security for biomedical HCPS. Our framework leverages blockchain technology to decentralize identity management and access control, ensuring secure authentication and maintaining the integrity of sensitive biomedical data exchanged between IoT-enabled medical devices. By incorporating smart contracts, we automate key management and enforce stringent privacy and data integrity guarantees critical to biomedical applications. The proposed system was implemented on a Windows 10 PC and evaluated using various performance metrics, including authentication time, message size, transaction latency, and computational overhead. Experimental results demonstrate that IBS-ECDHE reduces authentication time by up to 76 % compared to traditional PKI systems, decreases message size by 40 %, and achieves lower blockchain transaction latency. The system also ensures scalability and energy efficiency, with parallel processing reducing latency by 37 %. The innovation of this approach lies in the combination of IBS with ECDHE for mutual authentication and the use of blockchain for decentralized identity management and secure real-time biomedical data exchange. This solution offers substantial improvements in security, privacy, and performance, making it highly suitable for next-generation biomedical HCPS.

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Biomedical Human-Cyber-Physical Systems (HCPS)BlockchainData privacyElliptic curve diffie–hellman ephemeral (ECDHE)Identity-based signatures (IBS)Secure authentication

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PMID41404109
PMCPMC12704071

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