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However, mobile healthcare workflow applications with these methods are widely ignored, demanding applications in various aspects for healthcare monitoring, live healthcare service, and biomedical firms. However, these offloading and scheduling schemes do not consider the workflow applications\u2019 execution in their models. This paper develops a lightweight secure efficient offloading scheduling (LSEOS) metaheuristic model. LSEOS consists of light weight, and secure offloading and scheduling methods whose execution offloading delay is less than that of existing methods. The objective of LSEOS is to run workflow applications on other nodes and minimize the delay and security risk in the system. The metaheuristic LSEOS consists of the following components: adaptive deadlines, sorting, and scheduling with neighborhood search schemes. Compared to current strategies for delay and security validation in a model, computational results revealed that the LSEOS outperformed all available offloading and scheduling methods for process applications by 10% security ratio and by 29% regarding delays.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22062379","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,20]],"date-time":"2022-03-20T21:37:17Z","timestamp":1647812237000},"page":"2379","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["A Lightweight Secure Adaptive Approach for Internet-of-Medical-Things Healthcare Applications in Edge-Cloud-Based Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1833-1364","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abdullah","family":"Lakhan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 74800, Pakistan"},{"name":"College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ali Hassan","family":"Sodhro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Kristianstad University, SE-291 88 Kristianstad, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Arnab","family":"Majumdar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-4993-949X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pattaraporn","family":"Khuwuthyakorn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Arts, Media, and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1664-0059","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Orawit","family":"Thinnukool","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Arts, Media, and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"755","DOI":"10.1016\/j.future.2019.03.011","article-title":"Security modeling and efficient computation offloading for service workflow in mobile edge computing","volume":"97","author":"Huang","year":"2019","journal-title":"Future Gener. 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