AI-embedded IoT healthcare optimization with trust-aware mobile edge computing

Embedded technologies combined with the Internet of Things (IoT), have transformed healthcare monitoring systems into automated and responsive platforms. In recent decades, many existing approaches have been based on edge computing to reduce response time in patient monitoring and provide a reliable method for interaction among the medical team and experts during disease diagnosis. Such approaches are the interconnection of battery-powered devices and physical objects to capture the physiological data streams for medical treatment and facilitate personalized healthcare systems. However, as wireless devices have limited resources for fulfilling end-user requests, this affects the accuracy of the medical system, especially in the presence of malicious devices on the communication infrastructure. Under diverse network conditions, such solutions lower the reliability level of the devices and increase the likelihood of suspicious processes. Therefore, to keep these significant concerns in IoT-based healthcare applications, trust and security should be adopted while collecting patients' data over an insecure medium. In this research study, we propose a model referred to as Edge-Cloud Trusted Intelligence (ECTI), aiming to decrease the computing overhead on the devices. Additionally, multi-level security is implemented to ensure privacy preservation by adopting trusted behavior when communicating in a distributed environment. The edges utilize resources efficiently by employing task offloading strategies, enabling lightweight collaborative decision-making for routing in the healthcare domain. The performance results revealed notable improvement of the proposed model against related schemes in terms of various network metrics.