M-ECDH Cryptographic Framework for Secure Cloud Based Healthcare Monitoring

International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering

© 2025 by SSRG - IJECE Journal

Volume 12 Issue 12

Year of Publication : 2025

Authors : Tamilselvan Kaliyaperumal, Poonguzhali Ramaiyan

10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V12I12P118

How to Cite?

Tamilselvan Kaliyaperumal, Poonguzhali Ramaiyan, "M-ECDH Cryptographic Framework for Secure Cloud Based Healthcare Monitoring," SSRG International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering, vol. 12,  no. 12, pp. 218-229, 2025. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V12I12P118

Abstract:

The uncontrolled rate of expansion of healthcare data and storing it in the clouds requires the hardy measures of safety to maintain the privacy of patients and their data security. This paper introduces a safe healthcare monitoring system, which utilizes the Modified Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (M-ECDH) cryptosystem. M-ECDH amplifies the conventional ECC by streamlining the key exchange, encryption, and decryption mechanisms, and this minimizes the computational complexity. It is an architecture that serves cloud-integrated healthcare apps, which allows the secure transfer of patient data gathered by devices enabled with IoT. According to the findings of the experiments, it was shown that the encryption, decryption, and key generation durations could be improved by 10-20% as compared to the use of traditional cryptographic approaches. Moreover, it uses integration of blockchain technology to provide data that cannot be changed and access to data that is under control. The suggested solution can be successfully deployed in any contemporary healthcare facility to secure real-time healthcare data without affecting its performance, which is scalable and efficient.

Keywords:

Blockchain, Cloud security, Healthcare monitoring, IoT, M-ECDH.

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