Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoT
As a core technology to manage decentralized systems, blockchain is gaining much popularity to deploy such applications as smart grid and healthcare systems. However, its utilization in resource-constrained mobile devices is limited due to high demands of resources and poor scalability with frequent...
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| author | Baraka William Nyamtiga Jose Costa Sapalo Sicato Shailendra Rathore Yunsick Sung Jong Hyuk Park |
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| description | As a core technology to manage decentralized systems, blockchain is gaining much popularity to deploy such applications as smart grid and healthcare systems. However, its utilization in resource-constrained mobile devices is limited due to high demands of resources and poor scalability with frequent-intensive transactions. Edge computing can be integrated to facilitate mobile devices in offloading their mining tasks to cloud resources. This integration ensures reliable access, distributed computation and untampered storage for scalable and secure transactions. It is imperative therefore that crucial issues of security, scalability and resources management be addressed to achieve successful integration. Studies have been conducted to explore suitable architectural requirements, and some researchers have applied the integration to deploy some specific applications. Despite these efforts, however, issues of anonymity, adaptability and integrity still need to be investigated further to attain a practical, secure decentralized data storage. We based our study on peer-to-peer and blockchain to achieve an Internet of Things (IoT) design supported by edge computing to acquire security and scalability levels needed for the integration. We investigated existing blockchain and associated technologies to discover solutions that address anonymity, integrity and adaptability issues for successful integration of blockchain in IoT systems. The discovered solutions were then incorporated in our conceptual design of the decentralized application prototype presented for secure storage of IoT data and transactions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-93b920594de545ef89e4c174c9740f6f2022-12-22T04:28:27ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922019-07-018882810.3390/electronics8080828electronics8080828Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoTBaraka William Nyamtiga0Jose Costa Sapalo Sicato1Shailendra Rathore2Yunsick Sung3Jong Hyuk Park4Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, KoreaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, KoreaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, KoreaDepartment of Multimedia Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul 04620, KoreaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, KoreaAs a core technology to manage decentralized systems, blockchain is gaining much popularity to deploy such applications as smart grid and healthcare systems. However, its utilization in resource-constrained mobile devices is limited due to high demands of resources and poor scalability with frequent-intensive transactions. Edge computing can be integrated to facilitate mobile devices in offloading their mining tasks to cloud resources. This integration ensures reliable access, distributed computation and untampered storage for scalable and secure transactions. It is imperative therefore that crucial issues of security, scalability and resources management be addressed to achieve successful integration. Studies have been conducted to explore suitable architectural requirements, and some researchers have applied the integration to deploy some specific applications. Despite these efforts, however, issues of anonymity, adaptability and integrity still need to be investigated further to attain a practical, secure decentralized data storage. We based our study on peer-to-peer and blockchain to achieve an Internet of Things (IoT) design supported by edge computing to acquire security and scalability levels needed for the integration. We investigated existing blockchain and associated technologies to discover solutions that address anonymity, integrity and adaptability issues for successful integration of blockchain in IoT systems. The discovered solutions were then incorporated in our conceptual design of the decentralized application prototype presented for secure storage of IoT data and transactions.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/8/8/828blockchainIoTedge computingpeer-to-peersecurity |
| spellingShingle | Baraka William Nyamtiga Jose Costa Sapalo Sicato Shailendra Rathore Yunsick Sung Jong Hyuk Park Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoT Electronics blockchain IoT edge computing peer-to-peer security |
| title | Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoT |
| title_full | Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoT |
| title_fullStr | Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoT |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoT |
| title_short | Blockchain-Based Secure Storage Management with Edge Computing for IoT |
| title_sort | blockchain based secure storage management with edge computing for iot |
| topic | blockchain IoT edge computing peer-to-peer security |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/8/8/828 |
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