IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoT
Access control is a critical aspect for improving the privacy and security of IoT systems. A consortium is a public or private association or a group of two or more institutes, businesses, and companies that collaborate to achieve common goals or form a resource pool to enable the sharing economy as...
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| author | Mohammed Amine Bouras Boming Xia Adnan Omer Abuassba Huansheng Ning Qinghua Lu |
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| description | Access control is a critical aspect for improving the privacy and security of IoT systems. A consortium is a public or private association or a group of two or more institutes, businesses, and companies that collaborate to achieve common goals or form a resource pool to enable the sharing economy aspect. However, most access control methods are based on centralized solutions, which may lead to problems like data leakage and single-point failure. Blockchain technology has its intrinsic feature of distribution, which can be used to tackle the centralized problem of traditional access control schemes. Nevertheless, blockchain itself comes with certain limitations like the lack of scalability and poor performance. To bridge the gap of these problems, here we present a decentralized capability-based access control architecture designed for IoT consortium networks named IoT-CCAC. A blockchain-based database is utilized in our solution for better performance since it exhibits favorable features of both blockchain and conventional databases. The performance of IoT-CCAC is evaluated to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed architecture. IoT-CCAC is a secure, salable, effective solution that meets the enterprise and business’s needs and adaptable for different IoT interoperability scenarios. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-518d1130bb6549d49090ccb2951687cb2022-12-21T22:45:12ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ Computer Science2376-59922021-04-017e45510.7717/peerj-cs.455IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoTMohammed Amine Bouras0Boming Xia1Adnan Omer Abuassba2Huansheng Ning3Qinghua Lu4School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, ChinaIT Department, Arab Open University, Al-Bireh, PalestineSchool of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, ChinaData61, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAccess control is a critical aspect for improving the privacy and security of IoT systems. A consortium is a public or private association or a group of two or more institutes, businesses, and companies that collaborate to achieve common goals or form a resource pool to enable the sharing economy aspect. However, most access control methods are based on centralized solutions, which may lead to problems like data leakage and single-point failure. Blockchain technology has its intrinsic feature of distribution, which can be used to tackle the centralized problem of traditional access control schemes. Nevertheless, blockchain itself comes with certain limitations like the lack of scalability and poor performance. To bridge the gap of these problems, here we present a decentralized capability-based access control architecture designed for IoT consortium networks named IoT-CCAC. A blockchain-based database is utilized in our solution for better performance since it exhibits favorable features of both blockchain and conventional databases. The performance of IoT-CCAC is evaluated to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed architecture. IoT-CCAC is a secure, salable, effective solution that meets the enterprise and business’s needs and adaptable for different IoT interoperability scenarios.https://peerj.com/articles/cs-455.pdfCapability-based access controlBlockchain-based databaseInternet of things (IoT)Consortium networks |
| spellingShingle | Mohammed Amine Bouras Boming Xia Adnan Omer Abuassba Huansheng Ning Qinghua Lu IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoT PeerJ Computer Science Capability-based access control Blockchain-based database Internet of things (IoT) Consortium networks |
| title | IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoT |
| title_full | IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoT |
| title_fullStr | IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoT |
| title_full_unstemmed | IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoT |
| title_short | IoT-CCAC: a blockchain-based consortium capability access control approach for IoT |
| title_sort | iot ccac a blockchain based consortium capability access control approach for iot |
| topic | Capability-based access control Blockchain-based database Internet of things (IoT) Consortium networks |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/cs-455.pdf |
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