Secure Bluetooth Communication in Smart Healthcare Systems: A Novel Community Dataset and Intrusion Detection System.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

Smart health presents an ever-expanding attack surface due to the continuous adoption of a broad variety of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices and applications. IoMT is a common approach to smart city solutions that deliver long-term benefits to critical infrastructures, such as smart healthcare. Many of the IoMT devices in smart cities use Bluetooth technology for short-range communication due to its flexibility, low resource consumption, and flexibility. As smart healthcare applications rely on distributed control optimization, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) offer effective approaches to mitigate cyber-attacks. This paper presents a decentralized, predictive, DL-based process to autonomously detect and block malicious traffic and provide an end-to-end defense against network attacks in IoMT devices. Furthermore, we provide the dataset for Bluetooth-based attacks against IoMT networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first intrusion detection dataset for Bluetooth classic and Bluetooth low energy (BLE). Using the BlueTack dataset, we devised a multi-layer intrusion detection method that uses deep-learning techniques. We propose a decentralized architecture for deploying this intrusion detection system on the edge nodes of a smart healthcare system that may be deployed in a smart city. The presented multi-layer intrusion detection models achieve performances in the range of 97-99.5% based on the F1 scores.

Authors

  • Mohammed Zubair
    Kindi Center for Computing Research, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, Qatar.
  • Ali Ghubaish
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
  • Devrim Unal
    Department of Electrical Engineering, KINDI Center for Computing Research, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
  • Abdulla Al-Ali
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar.
  • Thomas Reimann
    Copenhagen Emergency Medical Service, 3400 Hillerød, Denmark.
  • Guillaume Alinier
    Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
  • Mohammad Hammoudeh
    Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • Junaid Qadir
    Department of Computer Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.