Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium Blockchain
Although many studies have been devoted to integrating blockchain into IoT device management, access control, data integrity, security, and privacy, blockchain-facilitated IoT communication is still much less studied. Blockchain has great potential in decentralizing and securing IoT communications....
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| description | Although many studies have been devoted to integrating blockchain into IoT device management, access control, data integrity, security, and privacy, blockchain-facilitated IoT communication is still much less studied. Blockchain has great potential in decentralizing and securing IoT communications. In this paper, we propose an innovative IoT service platform powered by the consortium blockchain technology. The proposed platform abstracts machine-to-machine (M2M) and human-to-machine (H2M) communications into services provided by IoT devices. Then, it materializes the data exchange of the IoT network through smart contracts and blockchain transactions. Additionally, we introduce the auxiliary storage layer to the proposed platform to address various off-chain data storage needs. Our proof-of-concept implementation was tested against various workloads and connection sizes under different block configurations to evaluate the platform’s transaction throughput, latency, and hardware utilization. The experimental results demonstrate that our solution can maintain high performance with a throughput of approximately 800 reads per second (RPS), 50–80 transactions per second (TPS), and a latency of 50 ms–2 s under light to moderate workloads. Our extensive evaluation of the performance impact of batch size, batch timeout, and connection size also provides valuable insights into the optimization of blockchain configuration for achieving high performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b6828f81daf941d1aa0580814698c2052023-11-24T06:44:04ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-10-012221818610.3390/s22218186Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium BlockchainRuipeng Zhang0Chen Xu1Mengjun Xie2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USADepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USADepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USAAlthough many studies have been devoted to integrating blockchain into IoT device management, access control, data integrity, security, and privacy, blockchain-facilitated IoT communication is still much less studied. Blockchain has great potential in decentralizing and securing IoT communications. In this paper, we propose an innovative IoT service platform powered by the consortium blockchain technology. The proposed platform abstracts machine-to-machine (M2M) and human-to-machine (H2M) communications into services provided by IoT devices. Then, it materializes the data exchange of the IoT network through smart contracts and blockchain transactions. Additionally, we introduce the auxiliary storage layer to the proposed platform to address various off-chain data storage needs. Our proof-of-concept implementation was tested against various workloads and connection sizes under different block configurations to evaluate the platform’s transaction throughput, latency, and hardware utilization. The experimental results demonstrate that our solution can maintain high performance with a throughput of approximately 800 reads per second (RPS), 50–80 transactions per second (TPS), and a latency of 50 ms–2 s under light to moderate workloads. Our extensive evaluation of the performance impact of batch size, batch timeout, and connection size also provides valuable insights into the optimization of blockchain configuration for achieving high performance.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/21/8186Internet of ThingsIoT communicationsecurity and privacyconsortium blockchainsmart contractHyperledger fabric |
| spellingShingle | Ruipeng Zhang Chen Xu Mengjun Xie Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium Blockchain Sensors Internet of Things IoT communication security and privacy consortium blockchain smart contract Hyperledger fabric |
| title | Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium Blockchain |
| title_full | Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium Blockchain |
| title_fullStr | Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium Blockchain |
| title_full_unstemmed | Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium Blockchain |
| title_short | Secure Decentralized IoT Service Platform Using Consortium Blockchain |
| title_sort | secure decentralized iot service platform using consortium blockchain |
| topic | Internet of Things IoT communication security and privacy consortium blockchain smart contract Hyperledger fabric |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/21/8186 |
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