Title: An energy harvesting, blockchain, and QoS-aware intelligent healthcare task coordination policy for IoT-assisted networks

Authors: Mahfuzulhoq Chowdhury

Addresses: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong-4349, Bangladesh

Abstract: With the rise of advanced communication technology, mobile devices, cloud computing, and internet of things (IoT) technology, a significant amount of IoT-assisted healthcare applications have been emerged to improve the human's life quality. Most of the existing works in IoT-assisted healthcare application execution do not consider the energy harvesting, computation task allocation, trust access authentication of users, and quality of service (QoS) requirements satisfaction at the same time by investigating different healthcare users, requirements, energy cost, available cloud, and network resources. To deal with these issues, this paper proposes an intelligent energy harvesting, decentralised blockchain-based authentication, and QoS-aware healthcare task coordination scheme for IoT-assisted healthcare applications by taking into account different users, QoS requirements, resources availability, and resource cost. Simulation results on transaction delay, energy consumption, resource cost, throughput, and system reward are presented to show the significance of the proposed scheme over the conventional schemes.

Keywords: blockchain; BC; energy harvesting; EH; task coordination; healthcare; internet of things; IoT; quality of service; QoS.

DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2022.125432

International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2022 Vol.15 No.4, pp.313 - 325

Received: 17 Nov 2021
Accepted: 21 Feb 2022
Published online: 09 Sep 2022 *

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