Edge-Based Blockchain Architecture for Event-Driven IoT using Hierarchical Identity Based Encryption

Pavithran, Deepa; Al‐Karaki, Jamal N.; Shaalan, Khaled

doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102528

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“…The protection of data can be done in many ways [29][30][31][32]. Among them, the academic field widely recognizes blockchain technology for its distributed and multi-copy mechanism that brings the advantage of tamper-proof data on the chain [32][33][34]. Ritzdorf et al [33] proposed an extension to the TLS protocol called TLS-N that provides non-repudiation proofs for each TLS session.…”

Section: The Remote Attestationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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PIMS: An Efficient Process Integrity Monitoring System Based on Blockchain and Trusted Computing in Cloud-Native Context

Yang¹,

Huang²,

Liu³

et al. 2023

Computer Modeling in Engineering &Amp; Sciences

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With the advantages of lightweight and high resource utilization, cloud-native technology with containers as the core is gradually becoming the mainstream technical architecture for information infrastructure. However, malware attacks such as Doki and Symbiote threaten the container runtime's security. Malware initiates various types of runtime anomalies based on process form (e.g., modifying the process of a container, and opening the external ports). Fortunately, dynamic monitoring mechanisms have proven to be a feasible solution for verifying the trusted state of containers at runtime. Nevertheless, the current routine dynamic monitoring mechanisms for baseline data protection are still based on strong security assumptions. As a result, the existing dynamic monitoring mechanism is still not practical enough. To ensure the trustworthiness of the baseline value data and, simultaneously, to achieve the integrity verification of the monitored process, we combine blockchain and trusted computing to propose a process integrity monitoring system named IPMS. Firstly, the hardware TPM 2.0 module is applied to construct a trusted security foundation for the integrity of the process code segment due to its tamper-proof feature. Then, design a new format for storing measurement logs, easily distinguishing files with the same name in different containers from log information. Meanwhile, the baseline value data is stored on the blockchain to avoid malicious damage. Finally, trusted computing technology is used to perform fine-grained integrity measurement and remote attestation of processes in a container, detect abnormal containers in time and control them. We have implemented a prototype system and performed extensive simulation experiments to test and analyze the functionality and performance of the PIMS. Experimental results show that PIMS can accurately and efficiently detect tampered processes with only 3.57% performance loss to the container.

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Section: The Remote Attestationmentioning

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“…The protocol uses a generator to generate signed evidence that can be verified by any third party via public key infrastructure. Pavithran et al [34] proposed an IoT and blockchain architecture using mobile edge cloud computing. They use decentralization to achieve confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.…”

Section: The Remote Attestationmentioning

confidence: 99%

PIMS: An Efficient Process Integrity Monitoring System Based on Blockchain and Trusted Computing in Cloud-Native Context

Yang¹,

Huang²,

Liu³

et al. 2023

Computer Modeling in Engineering &Amp; Sciences

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“…The use of Consortium BC in conjunction with the Transport Layer Security Protocol (TLSP) maintains security and privacy while reducing the requirement for a third party [ 143 ]. Pavithran et al [ 169 ] proposed a privacy-preserving BC architecture for IoT. The proposed architecture is well-suited to event-driven IoT devices, and it makes use of the edge and cloudlet computing paradigms, as well as Hierarchical Identity Based Encryption (HIBE) for privacy protection, in which the ciphertext comprises only three group components, and decryption needs only two bilinear map calculations.…”

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“…For BC, privacy-preserving strategies based on encryption approaches are evolving, allowing users to become anonymous and have the ability to manage their personal data (e.g., what, whom, and when personal data can be shared in each transaction). Authors proposed several mechanisms to enhance privacy ([ 70 , 88 , 115 , 116 , 162 , 169 , 217 ]); to enable and enhance identification ([ 61 , 129 , 136 , 172 , 174 , 209 , 218 ]), to ensure data privacy ([ 97 , 146 , 188 ]), and to enhance location privacy ([ 83 , 165 , 192 , 198 ]). The majority of the selected studies under this category reported that BC can enhance the level of privacy, in general, followed by identification, and the least purpose mentioned was to achieve data privacy.…”

Section: Blockchain-fog Computing Purposesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of the purposes of Blockchain and fog computing integration: classification and open issues

2022

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The fog computing concept was proposed to help cloud computing for the data processing of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, fog computing faces several challenges such as security, privacy, and storage. One way to address these challenges is to integrate blockchain with fog computing. There are several applications of blockchain-fog computing integration that have been proposed, recently, due to their lucrative benefits such as enhancing security and privacy. There is a need to systematically review and synthesize the literature on this topic of blockchain-fog computing integration. The purposes of integrating blockchain and fog computing were determined using a systematic literature review approach and tailored search criteria established from the research questions. In this research, 181 relevant papers were found and reviewed. The results showed that the authors proposed the combination of blockchain and fog computing for several purposes such as security, privacy, access control, and trust management. A lack of standards and laws may make it difficult for blockchain and fog computing to be integrated in the future, particularly in light of newly developed technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence. The findings of this paper serve as a resource for researchers and practitioners of blockchain-fog computing integration for future research and designs.

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“…Multi-blockchain means that multiple blockchains are connected, and the synchronous transmission of messages in each blockchain node is realized through the cross-blockchain mechanism, multi-blockchain consensus mechanism, etc. [ 16 , 17 ]. Applying multi-blockchain to the information management of agricultural products and food supply chains can enhance the performance of blockchains, increase the accounting capabilities of blockchains, and realize the interconnection of multiple links in agricultural and food supply chains.…”

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A Refined Supervision Model of Rice Supply Chain Based on Multi-Blockchain

Peng

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2022

Foods

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With the development of Agriculture 4.0, the requirements for sustainable agriculture and precision agriculture continue to grow. As one of the three major staple foods globally, the quality and safety of rice affect human health as well as social development. To ensure the quality and safety of rice and reduce the flow of problematic rice, a multi-layer blockchain-based rice supply chain refinement supervision model MBRRSM (Multi-blockchain Rice Refined Supervision Model) is proposed from the information level. First, the characteristics of information flow in the rice supply chain are analyzed, and a classification table of key information is constructed. Second, the MBRRSM framework is designed. Based on a multi-party hybrid encryption algorithm, secure multi-party computing algorithm, multi-mode storage mechanism, and SPOP (Supervision Proof of Peers) consensus algorithm, a set of mechanisms is designed for the transmission, use, storage, and consensus of rice data in MBRRSM. Subsequently, the security and performance capabilities of MBRRSM are analyzed. Meanwhile, the SPOP consensus algorithm is analyzed. Finally, a prototype system is built based on MBRRSM and verified through exemplary scenarios in different usage situations. The results show that research on the refined supervision of the rice supply chain based on multi-blockchain can finely supervise all types of data in the rice supply chain, and provide a guarantee for enterprise users to safely transmit and use data with different privacy levels. This study presents a unique research paradigm that introduces the theories and methods of the new information field generation into the field of agricultural research, and thus assists in the strategy implementation of “holding grain in the land and storing grain in technology”.

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Edge-Based Blockchain Architecture for Event-Driven IoT using Hierarchical Identity Based Encryption

Cited by 33 publications

References 22 publications

PIMS: An Efficient Process Integrity Monitoring System Based on Blockchain and Trusted Computing in Cloud-Native Context

PIMS: An Efficient Process Integrity Monitoring System Based on Blockchain and Trusted Computing in Cloud-Native Context

A systematic review of the purposes of Blockchain and fog computing integration: classification and open issues

A Refined Supervision Model of Rice Supply Chain Based on Multi-Blockchain

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