@inbook{1121,
  author = {Akram Hakiri and Aniruddha Gokhale and Nicolae Tapus},
  title = {BlockCare: SDN-Enabled Blockchain Framework for Securing Decentralized Healthcare and Precision Medicine Applications},
  abstract = {<p><span>The growing importance and maturity of Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable computing are revolutionizing healthcare diagnosis and body treatment by providing access to meaningful healthcare data and improving the effectiveness of medical services. In this context, personal health information must be exchanged via trusted transactions that provide secure and encrypted sensitive data of the patient. Moreover, healthcare smart devices need flexible, programmable, and agile networks to allow on-demand configuration and management to enable scalable and interoperable healthcare applications. Two complementary trends show promise in meeting these needs. First, blockchain is emerging as a transparent, immutable, and validated-by-design technology that offers a potential solution to address the key security challenges in healthcare domains by providing secure and pseudo-anonymous transactions in a fully distributed and decentralized manner. Second, software-defined networking (SDN) offers a significant promise in meeting the healthcare communication needs by providing a flexible and programmable environment to support customized security policies and services in a dynamic, software-based fashion. To that end, we present our ideas on SDN-enabled blockchains that can be used to develop and deploy privacy-preserving healthcare applications. First, we present a survey of the emerging trends and prospects, followed by an in-depth discussion of major challenges in this area. Second, we introduce a fog computing architecture that interconnects various IoT elements, SDN networking, and blockchain computing components that control and manage patients’ health-related parameters. Third, we validate our architecture in the context of three use cases involving smart health care, precision medicine, and pharmaceutical supply chain. Finally, we discuss open issues that need significant new research investigations.</span></p>},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Smart Systems for E-health of the Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing series},
  pages = {81-111},
  month = {04},
  publisher = {Springer International},
  isbn = {978-3-030-14938-3},
  url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350904827_BlockCare_SDN-Enabled_Blockchain_Framework_for_Securing_Decentralized_Healthcare_and_Precision_Medicine_Applications},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-14939-0_4},
}