ControlChain: Blockchain as a Central Enabler for Access Control Authorizations in the IoT

Pinno, Otto Julio Ahlert; Grégio, André; Bona, Luis C. E.

doi:10.1109/glocom.2017.8254521

Cited by 140 publications

(89 citation statements)

References 69 publications

(141 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…It uses the Blockchain as a platform for storing and synchronizing all the data essential for authorization decision making. Furthermore, we also expanded the original ControlChain to a hybrid approach. This main change was the employment of a side channel, off‐Blockchain, used for the propagation of time‐sensitive data.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

ControlChain: A new stage on the IoT access control authorization

Pinno

Grégio

Bona

2019

Concurrency and Computation

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The IoT is changing the way we interact with the world. Very soon, almost all of our daily tasks will be made through self intelligent systems embedded in devices scattered all around us. Their mission is to turn our cities, transportation systems, buildings, homes, and bodies in smart environments. These environments will bring us more comfort, improve our performance, increase our profits, and take away time-consuming tasks. However, besides its great benefits, the IoT is also a big source of concerns, mainly because a good part of its devices will handle private and confidential information. Recently, cases of successful IoT invasions only worsen this scenario and show us that the today's adopted access control systems need to be replaced by more efficiently and secure ones. To overcome these access control problems, in this work, we present the ControlChain. The ControlChain is an access control authorization architecture that is heavily based on Blockchain technology. We also demonstrate the viability of the ControlChain through the E-ControlChain, a proof-of-concept developed to run over the Ethereum network.Our proposals follows the IoT tendency requirements and are user-transparent, user-friendly, fully decentralized, scalable, fault tolerant, and compatible with a wide range of today's access control models already used in the IoT. Finally, we also make a cost and a performance analysis of E-ControlChain, using a Raspberry Pi as an IoT device.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

ControlChain: A new stage on the IoT access control authorization

Pinno

Grégio

Bona

2019

Concurrency and Computation

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This architecture can help in making the network more scalable and fault tolerant with a wide range of access control to IoT devices. The ControlChain also provides attributes assignment and relationship management in a secure manner . The Ethereum‐ControlChain ( E‐ControlChain ) was created as a ControlChain proof of concept to check ControlChain practical viability for the IoT.…”

Section: Existing Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ControlChain also provides attributes assignment and relationship management in a secure manner. 84 The Ethereum-ControlChain (E-ControlChain) was created as a ControlChain proof of concept to check ControlChain practical viability for the IoT. Their cost and performance analysis showed that even limited devices, like a Raspberry Pi, can easily handle the E-ControlChain requirements.…”

Section: Research Issue Research Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain‐based security aspects in heterogeneous Internet‐of‐Things networks: A survey

Pohrmen

Das

Saha

2019

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Blockchain is a key technology that enables cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc. In recent years, researchers have ventured into tapping the potential of blockchain‐based ecosystems beyond cryptocurrencies. This paper explores the convergence of blockchain with the Internet of things (IoT) and its improved versions like software‐defined network (SDN)–based IoT, which are upcoming technologies in the area. This paper gives a brief description of the IoT and its challenges, especially the security aspects. It also discusses how blockchain concept can further resolve these challenges on the SDN‐based IoT platform. This paper first discussed the evolution of conventional IoT to the SDN‐based IoT, which can resolve many drawbacks of a conventional IoT system. Also, it is focused on how the concept of blockchain can be converged with SDN‐based IoT system to further improve its security aspects. Although the convergence of these different technologies has resulted into many advantages, many associated challenges still remain. This paper highlighted these challenges and opportunities to discover many other research issues that need to be resolved. The details of current literature on the same issue has also been highlighted in this paper.

show abstract

“…[60] Mobile applications. Alansari et al [1,2] Cloud federation Ouaddah et al [39], Pinno et al [41], Dukkipati [21], Ma et al [34] Personal data generated by IoT devices Dagher et al [14], Azaria et al [5], Xia et al [52] Healthcare patients data Le and Mutka [30] Pervasive environment…”

Section: Blockchain-based Access Control Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Blockchain applications initially were limited to the cryptocurrencies and financial transactions. Invention of smart contracts leads to development of more divers applications [10], such as healthcare [5,14,42,52], IoT [16,21,38,41,46,47], supply chain [8,12,29]. In our previous study [43], after reviewing many research studies based on blockchain and smart contracts, we noticed that the primary focus of many presented applications is providing an efficient and secure access control mechanism.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain based access control systems: State of the art and challenges

Rouhani

Deters

2019

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Access control is a mechanism in computer security that regulates access to the system resources. The current access control systems face many problems, such as the presence of the third-party, inefficiency, and lack of privacy. These problems can be addressed by blockchain, the technology that received major attention in recent years and has many potentials. In this study, we overview the problems of the current access control systems, and then, we explain how blockchain can help to solve them. We also present an overview of access control studies and proposed platforms in the different domains. This paper presents the state of the art and the challenges of blockchain-based access control systems.

show abstract

ControlChain: Blockchain as a Central Enabler for Access Control Authorizations in the IoT

Cited by 140 publications

References 69 publications

ControlChain: A new stage on the IoT access control authorization

ControlChain: A new stage on the IoT access control authorization

Blockchain‐based security aspects in heterogeneous Internet‐of‐Things networks: A survey

Blockchain based access control systems: State of the art and challenges

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About