Due to the value and importance of patient health records (PHR), security is the most critical feature of encryption over the Internet. Users that perform keyword searches to gain access to the PHR stored in the database are more susceptible to security risks. Although a blockchain-based healthcare system can guarantee security, present schemes have several flaws. Existing techniques have concentrated exclusively on data storage and have utilized blockchain as a storage database. In this research, we developed a unique deep-learning-based secure search-able blockchain as a distributed database using homomorphic encryption to enable users to securely access data via search. Our suggested study will increasingly include secure key revocation and update policies. An IoT dataset was used in this research to evaluate our suggested access control strategies and compare them to benchmark models. The proposed algorithms are implemented using smart contracts in the hyperledger tool. The suggested strategy is evaluated in comparison to existing ones. Our suggested approach significantly improves security, anonymity, and monitoring of user behavior, resulting in a more efficient blockchain-based IoT system as compared to benchmark models.

According to the security breach level index, millions of records are stolen worldwide on every single day. Personal health records are the most targeted records on the internet, and they are considered sensitive, and valuable. Security and privacy are the most important parameters of cryptography and encryption. They reduce the availability of data on patients and healthcare to the appropriate personnel and ultimately lead to a barrier in the transfer of healthcare into a digital health system. Using a permission blockchain to share healthcare data can reduce security and privacy issues. According to the literature, most healthcare systems rely on a centralized system, which is more prone to security vulnerabilities. The existing blockchain-based healthcare schemes provide only a data-sharing framework, but they lack security and privacy. To cope with these kinds of security issues, we have designed a novel security algorithm that provides security as well as privacy with much better efficiency and a lower cost. Hence, in this research, we have proposed a patient healthcare framework that provides greater security, reliability, and authentication compared to existing blockchain-based access control.

Owing to the limited resources of sensor nodes, we propose an efficient hybrid routing scheme using a dynamic cluster-based static routing protocol (DCBSRP), leveraging the ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol and low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) protocol. In the proposed scheme, the cluster head (CH) nodes are formed dynamically for a fixed interval, whereas static routing is applied in the designated clusters by utilizing the AODV routing protocol. The static routing condition of the proposed scheme limits all connected nodes of the cluster for a defined interval of time (T) to share their collected information through a specific CH node. Once the time (T) interval is completed, all ordinary nodes connected with the specific CH are released and they are free to advertise their CH candidateship within the network. Likewise, the node receiving the maximum number of route replies (RREPs) is selected as the next CH node in the vicinity of deployed sensor nodes. However, with the DCBSRP protocol, the recently selected CH node does not advertise its candidateship for five consecutive cycles and acts as an ordinary node. The simulation result shows significant improvement in the lifetime and participation of ordinary nodes in the network until the end-stage of the network. In the proposed scheme, the participation of ordinary nodes in the network is 95.9 %, which not only balances load between participating nodes but also improves the network lifetime in the presence of field-proven schemes. Moreover, the simulation results show an out-performance of rival schemes in terms of communication cost, end to end delay, throughput, packet lost ratio, and energy consumption.

Deployment of new optimized routing rules on routers are challenging, owing to the tight coupling of the data and control planes and a lack of global topological information. Due to the distributed nature of the traditional classical internet protocol networks, the routing rules and policies are disseminated in a decentralized manner, which causes looping issues during link failure. Software-defined networking (SDN) provides programmability to the network from a central point. Consequently, the nodes or data plane devices in SDN only forward packets and the complexity of the control plane is handed over to the controller. Therefore, the controller installs the rules and policies from a central location. Due to the central control, link failure identification and restoration becomes pliable because the controller has information about the global network topology. Similarly, new optimized rules for link recovery can be deployed from the central point. Herein, we review several schemes for link failure recovery by leveraging SDN while delineating the cons of traditional networking. We also investigate the open research questions posed due to the SDN architecture. This paper also analyzes the proactive and reactive schemes in SDN using the OpenDayLight controller and Mininet, with the simulation of application scenarios from the tactical and data center networks.

Blockchain is a promising technology in the context of digital healthcare systems, but there are issues related to the control of accessing the electronic health records. In this paper, we propose a novel framework based on blockchain and multiple certificate authority that implement smart contracts and access health records securely. Our proposed solution provides the facilities of flexible policies to update a record or invoke the policy such that a patient has complete authority. A novel approach towards multiple certificate’s authority (CA) is introduced in the design through our proposed framework. Our proposed policies and methods overcome the shortcoming and security breaches faced by single certificate authority. Our proposed scheme provides a flexible access control mechanism for securing electronic health records as compared to the existing benchmark models. Moreover, our proposed method provides a re-enrolment facility in the case of a user lost enrolment.

One of the operational challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT) is load balancing, which is the focus of interest of this article. We propose a three-phase enhanced ad hoc on-demand distance vector (enhanced-AODV) routing protocol for multiwireless sensor networks (multi-WSNs). The three phases are categorized based on traffic priority, namely: 1) high priority; 2) low priority; and 3) ordinary network traffic. The network architecture is divided into chains, i.e., local and public chains, where the cluster heads (CHs) and base stations (BSs) are used, respectively, to manage the network traffic based on priority information with alternative route allocation. Moreover, our three-phase enhanced-AODV protocol provides traffic categorization with alternatives route allocation to minimize energy consumption and prolong the lifetime of participating devices in the network. The proposed model is implemented in the simulation environment to overview results statistics in terms of network lifetime, prioritize traffic, computation and communication costs, latency, and packet lost ratio (PLR). Findings from the simulation suggest that our scheme achieves 15% improvement in network lifetime, 17% latency, 22% PLR, and approximately 10% in the computation and communication costs of the network, in comparison to three other similar protocols.