

#MGUARD PROJECT WEBSITE MANUALS#
Curriculum materials, program documentations, and user manuals are maintained on the mGuard project website.
#MGUARD PROJECT WEBSITE SOFTWARE#
All of the software produced by the project is maintained in the NDN GitHub and mHealthHUB. Published papers are maintained through the mGuard website, NDN website, MD2K website, and publishers’ websites. The mGuard project website is (full website coming soon). To train the next generation, mGuard is creating undergraduate and graduate education materials including concrete examples and hands-on exercises, as well as training and outreach activities through online seminars, conference tutorials, mHealth training institute, and summer camps. mGuard also encourages researchers in other areas of data-intensive applications to explore NDN’s data-centric solutions. The transformative potential of mGuard thus extends across many types of digital interventions and many health domains. This effort enables the MD2K center to share its data securely and in real time with a large number of mHealth researchers. These new capabilities will be deployed in the MD2K cyberinfrastructure. Second, it utilizes NDN Sync to provide real-time data production notification based on this, it enables applications to publish and subscribe to data in real time by directly using MD2K data names. First, mGuard utilizes and extends NDN NAC to automate fine-grained access control of confidential data to authorized researchers. MGuard tackles the above challenges by utilizing the results from the NSF-supported Named Data Networking (NDN) initiative, in particular the solutions that automate the cryptographic key management for data access control (name-based access control, or NAC) and the solutions that enable real-time synchronization among distributed datasets (NDN Sync).

Second, to enable real-time intervention for certain medical conditions, researchers need to retrieve and process the sensor data in real-time, which is not supported at this time. First, because wearable sensor data may expose privacy-sensitive information about a user, they should be accessed only by authorized users currently this access control is largely handled manually, incurring high overhead and subject to human errors. The mGuard project aims to address two major data access challenges encountered by the NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge ( MD2K ) in its pursuit to share mobile health (mHealth) data among researchers who investigate a wide range of health and wellness issues.
