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A Decentralized Consensus Secure and Authentication Framework for Blockchain-Based Healthcare Application

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The rapid growth of mobile services and Internet of Things (IoT) has caused severe demands of a management system for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) where User Equipments (UEs) benefit from high computational power, capacity and communication as well as the offered services by MEC. However, a comprehensive management is required to orchestrate the services and resource in MEC to fairly distribute to UEs with the aim of ensuring the Quality of Experience (QoE). In this paper, we propose a decentralization concensus secure and authentication framework for MEC management/orchestration system with crucial security and authentication components by which it ensures the delivery of users’ quality of experience.

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This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea and National Research Foundation (NRF) in 2018. (NRF-2017-R1D1A1B03029210).

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Zubaydi, H.D., Chong, YW., Ham, GS., Ko, KM., Joo, SC. (2020). A Decentralized Consensus Secure and Authentication Framework for Blockchain-Based Healthcare Application. In: Park, J., Park, DS., Jeong, YS., Pan, Y. (eds) Advances in Computer Science and Ubiquitous Computing. CUTE CSA 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 536. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9341-9_94

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