BIO-AUTHENTICATION FOR LAYERED REMOTE HEALTH MONITOR FRAMEWORK

Aged people, patients with chronic disease, patients at remote location need continuous monitoring under healthcare professionals. Remote health monitor is likely to be an effective approach to provide healthcare service in a simple and cost effective way. However, effective implementation of this type of framework needs consid-eration of variety of security threats. In this paper, a layer based remote health monitor framework is proposed to analyze health condition of patients from remote places. Beside this, a multi-modal biometric authentication mechanism is proposed here to reduce misuse of health data and biometrics templates in heterogeneous cloud environment. Main focus of the paper is to design semi-continuous authentication mechanism after establishing mutual 1:1 trust relationship among the participants in cloud environment. Behavioral biometrics keystroke analysis is fused with physiological biometrics face recognition to enhance accuracy of authentication. Instead of considering traditional performance evaluation parameters for biometrics, this paper considers a few performance metrics for determining efficiency of semi-continuous verification of the proposed framework. 1