| Proj No. | A2046-251 |
| Title | Lightweight Protocols to Secure IoMT Devices for Personalized Healthcare |
| Summary | Personalized healthcare systems increasingly depend on patient-specific data collected by connected medical devices, such as implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and glucose monitors. The integration of IoMT with AI promises transformative gains in healthcare efficiency but introduces critical security risks. Recent studies reveal over 600 cybersecurity vulnerabilities in medical devices, with many remaining exposed for 3+ years, particularly in high-risk Class IIB/III devices. These vulnerabilities threaten patient safety (e.g., unauthorized device control) and privacy (e.g., sensitive health data leaks). Existing solutions, such as traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), are often too resource-intensive for IoMT devices with constrained power, memory, and computational capabilities. This project addresses the need for lightweight, hardware root-of-trust-based security protocols to protect next-generation IoMT systems. In this project the student will work toward the development of lightweight, secured communication protocols for authorization and authentication in resource-constrained IoMT systems especially next-generation of implantable medical devices. The advancement in Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) will be leveraged to generate device-unique cryptographic keys, ensuring hardware-level security against cloning/tampering. This project will explore PUF-based group key and mutual authentication protocols to avoid complex public-key algorithms for securing IoMT devices while ensuring patient safety is not jeopardized. The security of the developed protocols can then be validated through simulation, hardware prototypes, game-based evaluation, tools like proVerif. By eliminating complex PKI and leveraging hardware root-of-trust, this project could provide a scalable blueprint for next-generation medical devices. The proposed project will provide the student valuable research-oriented skills in communication protocol design, cryptography, and the opportunity to develop deeper understanding and skills to tackle the pressing security challenges in the rapidly evolving field of IoMT. Programming skills in Python/C++/Matlab and hardware coding skills in FPGA will be helpful. Students who wish to work on this project are encouraged to contact the supervisor for more information before making the selection. |
| Supervisor | Prof Chang Chip Hong (Loc:S2 > S2 B2C > S2 B2C 97, Ext: +65 67905873) |
| Co-Supervisor | - |
| RI Co-Supervisor | - |
| Lab | VIRTUS, IC Design Centre of Excellence (Loc: S3.2-B2 Tel 6592 1844) |
| Single/Group: | Single |
| Area: | Smart Electronics and IC design |
| ISP/RI/SMP/SCP?: |