SH-BlockCC: A secure and efficient Internet of things smart home architecture based on cloud computing and blockchain technology

Singh, Saurabh; Ra, In-Ho; Meng, Weizhi; Kaur, Maninder; Cho, Gihwan

doi:10.1177/1550147719844159

Cited by 108 publications

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“…In this approach, the providers who violated the shared agreements were detected through a set of voters or arbiters listed in a voting contract. In [36], a secure smart home architecture based on cloud and Blockchain technology was proposed. The authors used an encryption and hashing algorithm in Blockchain technology to obtain confidentiality and trust in smart home networks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tracking GDPR Compliance in Cloud-Based Service Delivery

Barati

Rana

2022

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.

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The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has had a far-reaching impact on data privacy and compliance for cloud providers. GDPR influences access to, storage, processing and transmission of personal data, requiring these operations to be verified by a cloud user through explicit consent prior to execution. GDPR rules implemented for such operations can be ambiguous and often open to interpretation, making manual verification a time consuming and error prone process for cloud providers. An encoding of GDPR rules is described, with each operation carried out using these rules recorded into a Blockchain for auditing purposes. Specifically, this work shows how some GDPR rules can appear as opcodes in smart contracts to verify the operations of providers on user data in a transparent and automatic way. An abstract model is designed to demonstrate how cloud providers can access and deploy such smart contracts through a Blockchain-based virtual machine. A case study is used to demonstrate how this approach can be used in practice. The case study uses a collection of design patterns and smart contracts to verify provider operations, including read, write, execution and transfer on user data. Validation is undertaken by deploying the smart contracts in a Blockchain test network to investigate the execution costs of GDPR compliance checking.

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Tracking GDPR Compliance in Cloud-Based Service Delivery

Barati

Rana

2022

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.

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“…In [49], the consortium blockchain was incorporated with cloud computing and the smart home architecture was presented in to achieve confidentiality, integrity, scalability, and availability to keep smart homes safe and secure. The proposed scheme showed the blockchain implementation in a smart home network for manipulating the transactions and uses green cloud computing.…”

Section: Consortium Blockchain Systems For Smart Homesmentioning

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Investigating Smart Home Security: Is Blockchain the Answer?

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Smart Home automation is increasingly gaining popularity among current applications of Internet of Things (IoT) due to the convenience and facilities it provides to the home owners. Sensors are employed within the home appliances via wireless connectivity to be accessible remotely by home owners to operate these devices. With the exponential increase of smart home IoT devices in the marketplace such as door locks, light bulbs, power switches etc, numerous security concerns are arising due to limited storage and processing power of such devices, making these devices vulnerable to several attacks. Due to this reason, security implementations in the deployment of these devices has gained popularity among researchers as a critical research area. Moreover, the adoption of traditional security schemes has failed to address the unique security concerns associated with these devices. Blockchain, a decentralised database based on cryptographic techniques, is gaining enormous attention to assure security of IoT systems. The blockchain framework within an IoT system is a fascinating substitute to the traditional centralised models, which has some significant concerns in fulfilling the demand of smart homes security. In this article, we aim to examine the security of smart homes by instigating the adoption of blockchain and exploring some of the currently proposed smart home architectures using blockchain technology. To present our findings, we describe a simple secure smart home framework based on a refined version of blockchain called Consortium blockchain. We highlight the limitations and opportunities of adopting such an architecture. We further evaluate our model and conclude with the results by designing an experimental testbed using a few household IoT devices commonly available in the marketplace.

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“…They addressed the basic concerns, such as overpowering trust issues as well as allowing secure and authenticated system of logistics and supply chain information exchange. The authors in [24] presented a secure and efficient framework for smart home based on blockchain and cloud computing technology. In [25], the authors proposed a blockchain based distributed framework for IIoT.…”

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Blockchain-Based Transaction Validation Protocol for a Secure Distributed IoT Network

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Blockchain is attracting more and more attention to its applicability in the fields of Internet of Things (IoT). In particular, it is able to store data in unalterable blocks, associated with its secure peer-topeer in a growing problem of transaction authorization in industrial and service provisioning applications. Moreover, it facilitates decentralized transaction (TX) validation and distributed ledger. The underneath algorithm of TX selection for validation may not be effective in terms of delay of various services of the applications. Because the existing random-based or fee-based selections are a delay insensitive that does not guarantee a minimum delay of a time-critical TX. This paper proposes a blockchain-based transaction validation protocol for a secure distributed IoT network. It includes a context-aware TX validation technique, where a TX is validated by a miner with the priority of a service. Besides, we adopt the Software Defined Networking enabled gateway as a middleware between IoT and the blockchain network in which the control operations and security of the network in a largescale are ensured. The proposed network model has evaluated and compared to the Core network. The results ensure the given priority in TX validation is more delay sensitive than the existing technique to provide quality of service of the network. INDEX TERMS Internet of things, blockchain technology, software defined networking, delay, security and privacy.

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SH-BlockCC: A secure and efficient Internet of things smart home architecture based on cloud computing and blockchain technology

Cited by 108 publications

References 29 publications

Tracking GDPR Compliance in Cloud-Based Service Delivery

Tracking GDPR Compliance in Cloud-Based Service Delivery

Investigating Smart Home Security: Is Blockchain the Answer?

Blockchain-Based Transaction Validation Protocol for a Secure Distributed IoT Network

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