DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UMA INFRAESTRUTURA DE SEGURANÇA PARA O MIDDLEWARE MOBILEHEALTHNET

Abstract

A social network can be defined as a social structure whose members are related in groups and whose interaction is accomplished through information and communication technologies, overcoming geographic and temporal obstacles to access content and perform interactions between people. In Mobile Social Networks, users use portable computing devices with access to wireless communication technologies to perform their interactions through the social network, adding the possibility of user mobility and the access to rich context information. In health care, a social network can be defined as a group of people (and the social structure they collectively construct) that uses information and communication technologies in order to collectively conduct actions related to health care and health education. This work is inserted in the context of the MobileHealthNet project, developed in partnership by the Distributed Systems Laboratory at the Universidade Federal do Maranhão and the Laboratory for Advanced Collaboration of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. The MobileHealthNet aims to develop a middleware that allows the establishment of mobile social networks and facilitate the development of collaborative services focusing the health care domain, the exchange of experiences between patients and health professionals, and a better management of health resources by government agencies. In this master thesis, we propose a security and privacy model to the MobileHealthNet project. Another contribution of this work consists of a solution for creating secure communication channels based on OMG DDS (Data Distribution Service), a data centered specification for publish/subscribe communication developed by the OMG (Object Management Group), adopted in the MobileHealthNet project.