Using Blockchain based Authentication Solution for the Remote Surgery in Tactile Internet

Since the Tactile Internet has been considered as a new era of Internet, delivering real-time interactive systems as well as ultra-reliable and ultra-responsive network connectivity, tremendous efforts have been made to ensure authentication between communication’s parties to secure remote surgery. Since this human to machine interaction like remote surgery is critical and the communication between the surgeon and the tactile actor i.e. robot arms should be fully protected during the surgical procedure, a fully secure mutual user authentication scheme should be used in order to establish a secure session among the communicating parties. The existing methods usually require a server to ensure the authentication among the communicating parties, which makes the system vulnerable to single of point failure and not fit the design of such critical distributed environment i.e. tactile internet. To address these issues, we propose a new decentralized blockchain based authentication solution for tactile internet. In our proposed solution, there is no need for a trusted party; moreover, the decentralized nature of our proposed solution makes the authentication immutable, efficient, secure, and low latency requirement. The implementation of our proposed solution is deployed on Ethereum official test network Ropsten. The experimental results show that our solution is efficient, highly secured, and flexible.

@article{HIDAR2021,
  title     = {Using Blockchain based Authentication Solution for the Remote Surgery in Tactile Internet},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {12},
  number    = {2},
  year      = {2021},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Tarik HIDAR and Anas ABOU EL KALAM and Siham BENHADOU and Oussama MOUNNAN},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120235},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120235}
}