Identity Management and Access Control Based on Blockchain under Edge Computing for the Industrial Internet of Things

Ren, Yongjun; Zhu, Fujian; Jian, Qi; Wang, Jin; Sangaiah, Arun Kumar

doi:10.3390/app9102058

Cited by 81 publications

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“…However, access mechanisms are not used efficiently. The authors in [20] presented a blockchain-based smart toy data exchange system to provide decentralized, secure, trusted, fair, and reliable data exchange. The system is efficient and ensures transparency and data confidentiality.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Sharing System Integrating Access Control Mechanism using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts for IoT Devices

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In this paper, a blockchain-based data sharing and access control system is proposed, for communication between the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The proposed system is intended to overcome the issues related to trust and authentication for access control in IoT networks. Moreover, the objectives of the system are to achieve trustfulness, authorization, and authentication for data sharing in IoT networks. Multiple smart contracts such as Access Control Contract (ACC), Register Contract (RC), and Judge Contract (JC) are used to provide efficient access control management. Where ACC manages overall access control of the system, and RC is used to authenticate users in the system, JC implements the behavior judging method for detecting misbehavior of a subject (i.e., user). After the misbehavior detection, a penalty is defined for that subject. Several permission levels are set for IoT devices’ users to share services with others. In the end, performance of the proposed system is analyzed by calculating cost consumption rate of smart contracts and their functions. A comparison is made between existing and proposed systems. Results show that the proposed system is efficient in terms of cost. The overall execution cost of the system is 6,900,000 gas units and the transaction cost is 5,200,000 gas units.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Sharing System Integrating Access Control Mechanism using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts for IoT Devices

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“…In order to solve the problem of edge computing security in IIoT, the authors of [ 15 ] develop a mechanism focused on blockchain identity management and access control. The registration and authentication of network entities are implemented using self-certified password technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Blockchain-Based Trusted Edge Platform in Edge Computing Environment

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Kang

et al. 2021

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Edge computing is a product of the evolution of IoT and the development of cloud computing technology, providing computing, storage, network, and other infrastructure close to users. Compared with the centralized deployment model of traditional cloud computing, edge computing solves the problems of extended communication time and high convergence traffic, providing better support for low latency and high bandwidth services. With the increasing amount of data generated by users and devices in IoT, security and privacy issues in the edge computing environment have become concerns. Blockchain, a security technology developed rapidly in recent years, has been adopted by many industries, such as finance and insurance. With the edge computing capability, deploying blockchain platforms/applications on edge computing platforms can provide security services for network edge environments. Although there are already solutions for integrating edge computing with blockchain in many IoT application scenarios, they slightly lack scalability, portability, and heterogeneous data processing. In this paper, we propose a trusted edge platform to integrate the edge computing framework and blockchain network for building an edge security environment. The proposed platform aims to preserve the data privacy of the edge computing client. The design based on the microservice architecture makes the platform lighter. To improve the portability of the platform, we introduce the Edgex Foundry framework and design an edge application module on the platform to improve the business capability of Edgex. Simultaneously, we designed a series of well-defined security authentication microservices. These microservices use the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain network to build a reliable security mechanism in the edge environment. Finally, we build an edge computing network using different hardware devices and deploy the trusted edge platform on multiple network nodes. The usability of the proposed platform is demonstrated by testing the round-trip time (RTT) of several important workflows. The experimental results demonstrate that the platform can meet the availability requirements in real-world usage scenarios.

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“…Then, Ren et al designed an identity management combination access control based on blockchain [31], and realized the registration and authentication of network entities by using cryptographic algorithm. The above research results provide new inspiration for the combination of the IoT and blockchain, and show that the IoT has considerable security requirements for security access control.…”

Section: B Iot and Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure ABE Scheme for Access Management in Blockchain-Based IoT

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Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used in various fields of our daily life in the past years. Obviously, in the future, the significance of its security will be more evident and enormous. However, there are still many security issues in the IoT, which makes it vulnerable to be attacked easily by some potential factors. Targeting at these issue, in this paper, we propose a secure access management scheme in IoT based on blockchain. Firstly, in our work, by using the Decisional Learning with Error (DLWE) problem, we propose a secure Key-policy Attribute-based Encryption (KP-ABE) scheme, it can implement fine-grained access control in IoT. Secondly, we use blockchain to solve the authentication and access management challenges. In addition, the smart contract in blockchain can process transactions automatically, which greatly reduces the management cost and running time for this scheme. Last but not the least, we further analyze the security of our proposed scheme. The result shows that our scheme can resist some common attacks in IoT, and it is more secure and efficient.

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Identity Management and Access Control Based on Blockchain under Edge Computing for the Industrial Internet of Things

Cited by 81 publications

References 36 publications

Data Sharing System Integrating Access Control Mechanism using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts for IoT Devices

Data Sharing System Integrating Access Control Mechanism using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts for IoT Devices

A Blockchain-Based Trusted Edge Platform in Edge Computing Environment

Secure ABE Scheme for Access Management in Blockchain-Based IoT

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