Securing edge-enabled smart healthcare
systems with blockchain: A systematic literature review University of Maribor, Ljubljana, Slovenia ziga.kodric@student.um.si, {simon.vrhovec, luka.jelovcan}@student.um.si
Abstract As edge computing applications in smart healthcare
systems are becoming increasingly more popular, security issues are on the
rise as well. Blockchain is emerging as one of the most popular solutions for
securing edge-enabled smart healthcare systems however the extent to which
blockchain has been applied to those systems is unclear. To fill in this gap,
we conducted a systematic literature review focusing on blockchain-based
edge-enabled smart healthcare systems. The results of our review show that
this is a novel field as the number of publications seems to grow
exponentially each year. Blockchain is mostly utilized for ensuring access
control and data transmission security albeit several papers emphasize the
importance of node security in such systems too. Most edge-enabled smart
healthcare systems support creating and reading data, and approximately half
of them support updating data while deleting is rarely supported. Keywords: smart health, edge, blockchain, SLR +: Corresponding author: Luka Jelovčan
Journal of Internet Services and Information
Security (JISIS), 11(4): 19-32, November 2021 |