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# Architecture
This page provides a **high-level architectural view** of MGuard.
It summarizes how the main modules interact, how data flows through the system, and how security and access control are enforced at a system level.
Detailed module-level behavior, policy processing, manifest handling, and sequence diagrams are provided in the linked **Architecture Details** page.
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## System Architecture Overview
MGuard follows the design described in the paper’s **Design Overview** (§3.1). :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}
A service instance consists of:
- a data source (MD2K repository or sensor-generated streams),
- a **Producer** that adapts and publishes mHealth data into NDN,
- a **Controller** responsible for access policies and requester validation,
- an **Attribute Authority (AA)** issuing decryption keys,
- an **NDN Repository** storing encrypted data, content keys, and manifests,
- one or more **Consumers** subscribing to data streams they are authorized to access.
Data requesters obtain trust anchors and certificates, subscribe to data streams, receive manifest notifications, and fetch/decrypt data objects.
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## High-Level Architecture Diagram
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