Improved ECC cryptosystem-based lightweight authentication for SDN-based edge computing in IoT-enabled healthcare systems

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of smart devices with limited resources that can identify and analyze data. In IoT-enabled healthcare systems, the security of IoT devices and the data they contain is complex. These devices in the healthcare industry, edge computing can provide low-latency information services at a reasonable cost. This work proposes a security infrastructure for Software Defined Network (SDN)-based edge computing in IoT-enabled healthcare systems consisting of three steps: Lightweight authentication, collaborative edge computing and job migration. The lightweight authentication step involves both Improved Lightweight Key Management (ILKM) and Improved Elliptic Curve Cryptography (IECC) schemes to ensure authentication among the devices and edge servers. Moreover, the patient’s data in IoT devices are scheduled to the appropriate edge server by examining the load balancing in the collaborative edge computing phase. This is done optimally using the adopted hybrid optimization model, Osprey Assisted Coati Optimization Algorithm (OACOA). Further, job migration takes place, in which the data is allocated to the edge server by comparing the capacity of edge servers and the data gets migrated to other servers by considering migration cost when the capacity of the edge server is overloaded. Finally, the efficiency of the suggested OACOA scheme is evaluated over traditional models with regard to several metrics. When considering the edge-server 30, the OACOA scheme achieves a makespan of 385, while conventional methods acquired fewer makespan ratings. Also, the OACOA approach obtained the highest security ratings (0.7143) on edge-server 20 when compared to existing schemes.