Securing the Communications in a WoT/WebRTC-based Smart Healthcare Architecture

Saad El Jaouhari (1, 2) , Ahmed Bouabdallah (1, 2) , Jean-Marie Bonnin (1, 2, 3) , Tayeb Lemlouma (4, 5)

1 OCIF - Objets communicants pour l'Internet du futur
2 IMT Atlantique - SRCD - Département Systèmes Réseaux, Cybersécurité et Droit du numérique
3 TACOMA - TAngible COMputing Architectures
4 IRISA - Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires
5 UR - Université de Rennes

In this paper, an e-health framework specially conceived for remote examination of patients and injured persons in case of accidents is presented. This architecture is based on coupling the real-time communication capabilities of WebRTC and the advantages brought by the Web of Things (WoT). We focus on the security aspects, especially for the security of the medical data exchanged between the different entities in order to prevent eavesdropping and tampering those personal data of the patients, by introducing a security layer based on a CoAP-DTLS implementation in Node.js. Our approach has the advantage of enhancing the capability of this architecture while remaining compliant with the vision of the WoT.

Mots clés: WebRTC; E-Health; WoT; IoT; Security mechanisms; Confidentiality; Integrity; CoAP; DTLS

Domaines: Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]; Informatique mobile; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Web

Saad El Jaouhari, Ahmed Bouabdallah, Jean-Marie Bonnin, Tayeb Lemlouma. Securing the Communications in a WoT/WebRTC-based Smart Healthcare Architecture. MT4H 2017 : 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Technology for Healthcare, Jun 2017, Exeter, United Kingdom. pp.403 - 408, ⟨10.1109/ISPAN-FCST-ISCC.2017.70⟩. ⟨hal-01666280⟩