Policy-based access control for constrained healthcare resources in the context of the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors and mobile wearable devices are helping to provide healthcare systems that are more ubiquitous, smarter, faster and easily accessible to users. However, security is a significant concern for the IoT, with access control being one of the major issues. With the growing size and presence of these systems an important question is how to manage policies in a manner that is both scalable and flexible. In...