Adil Muhammad, Khan Muhammad Khurram
Department of Computer Science, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida, USA.
Sustain Cities Soc. 2021 Dec;75:103311. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103311. Epub 2021 Sep 11.
COVID-19 is a global infectious disease that can be easily spread by the contiguity of infected people. To prevent from COVID-19 and reduce its impact in sustainable smart cities, the global research communities are working relentlessly by harnessing the emerging technologies to develop the safest diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment procedures, and Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the pioneers among them. IoT can perform a pivotal role to diminish its immense contagious rate by suitable utilization in emerging healthcare IoT applications in sustainable smart cities. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to outline a survey of the emerging healthcare IoT applications practiced in the perspective of COVID-19 pandemic in terms of network architecture security, trustworthiness, authentication, and data preservation followed by identifying existing challenges to set the future research directions. The salient contributions of this work deal with the accomplishment of a detailed and comprehensive literature review of COVID-19 starting from 2019 through 2021 in the context of emerging healthcare IoT technology. In addition, we extend the correlated contributions of this work by highlighting the weak aspects of the existing emerging healthcare IoT applications, security of different network layers and secure communication environment followed by some associated requirements to address these challenges. Moreover, we also identify future research directions in sustainable smart cities for emerging healthcare IoT utilization in the context of COVID-19 with the most productive results and least network implementation costs.
新冠病毒病是一种全球传染病，可通过感染者的接触轻易传播。为了预防新冠病毒病并减少其在可持续智慧城市中的影响，全球研究界正在不懈努力，利用新兴技术开发最安全的诊断、评估和治疗程序，而物联网（IoT）是其中的先驱之一。通过在可持续智慧城市的新兴医疗物联网应用中进行适当利用，物联网可以在降低其巨大的传染率方面发挥关键作用。因此，本文的重点是概述从网络架构安全、可信度、认证和数据保存等方面，对在新冠疫情背景下新兴的医疗物联网应用进行的调查，随后识别现有挑战以确定未来的研究方向。这项工作的突出贡献在于完成了从2019年到2021年在新兴医疗物联网技术背景下对新冠病毒病的详细而全面的文献综述。此外，我们通过强调现有新兴医疗物联网应用的薄弱环节、不同网络层的安全性和安全通信环境，并提出一些应对这些挑战的相关要求，扩展了这项工作的相关贡献。此外，我们还确定了在新冠病毒病背景下，以最高的生产效率和最低的网络实施成本，在可持续智慧城市中利用新兴医疗物联网的未来研究方向。
