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Despite that fact, innovative security mechanisms are required to meet the security concerns of such systems effectively and efficiently. Additionally, the industry and the research community have anticipated that blockchain technology will be a disruptive technology that will be able to be integrated into innovative security solutions for IoMT networks since it has the potential to play a big role in: (a) enabling secure data transmission, (b) ensuring IoMT device security, and (c) enabling tamper-proof data storage. Therefore, the purpose of this research work is to design a novel lightweight blockchain-based security architecture for IoMT-based health monitoring systems leveraging the features of the Hyperledger Fabric (HF) Platform, its utilities. and its lightweight blockchain nature in order to: (i) ensure entity authentication, (ii) ensure data confidentiality, and (iii) enable a more energy-efficient blockchain-based security architecture for IoMT-based health monitoring systems while considering the limited resources of IoMT gateways. While security mechanisms for IoT utilizing HF do exist, to the best of our knowledge there is no specific HF-based architecture for IoMT-based health monitoring systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi15090308","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,11]],"date-time":"2023-09-11T09:09:21Z","timestamp":1694423361000},"page":"308","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Prototyping a Hyperledger Fabric-Based Security Architecture for IoMT-Based Health Monitoring Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Filippos","family":"Pelekoudas-Oikonomou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Evotel Inform\u00e1tica S.A., 27400 Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, Spain"},{"name":"Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9 C.","family":"Ribeiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Evotel Inform\u00e1tica S.A., 27400 Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Georgios","family":"Mantas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Georgia","family":"Sakellari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jonathan","family":"Gonzalez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Evotel Inform\u00e1tica S.A., 27400 Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zachos, G., Essop, I., Mantas, G., Porfyrakis, K., and Ribeiro, J.C. 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