A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach
Identity management is a fundamental feature of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, particularly for IoT data access control. However, most of the actual works adopt centralized approaches, which could lead to a single point of failure and privacy issues that are tied to the use of a trusted third p...
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| author | Mohammed Amine Bouras Qinghua Lu Sahraoui Dhelim Huansheng Ning |
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| description | Identity management is a fundamental feature of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, particularly for IoT data access control. However, most of the actual works adopt centralized approaches, which could lead to a single point of failure and privacy issues that are tied to the use of a trusted third parties. A consortium blockchain is an emerging technology that provides a neutral and trustable computation and storage platform that is suitable for building identity management solutions for IoT. This paper proposes a lightweight architecture and the associated protocols for consortium blockchain-based identity management to address privacy, security, and scalability issues in a centralized system for IoT. Besides, we implement a proof-of-concept prototype and evaluate our approach. We evaluate our work by measuring the latency and throughput of the transactions while using different query actions and payload sizes, and we compared it to other similar works. The results show that the approach is suitable for business adoption. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee5bf271d04b4fcfa37fbe9489338c212023-12-03T14:22:03ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032021-01-011322410.3390/fi13020024A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management ApproachMohammed Amine Bouras0Qinghua Lu1Sahraoui Dhelim2Huansheng Ning3The School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, ChinaData61, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra 2601, AustraliaThe School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, ChinaThe School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, ChinaIdentity management is a fundamental feature of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, particularly for IoT data access control. However, most of the actual works adopt centralized approaches, which could lead to a single point of failure and privacy issues that are tied to the use of a trusted third parties. A consortium blockchain is an emerging technology that provides a neutral and trustable computation and storage platform that is suitable for building identity management solutions for IoT. This paper proposes a lightweight architecture and the associated protocols for consortium blockchain-based identity management to address privacy, security, and scalability issues in a centralized system for IoT. Besides, we implement a proof-of-concept prototype and evaluate our approach. We evaluate our work by measuring the latency and throughput of the transactions while using different query actions and payload sizes, and we compared it to other similar works. The results show that the approach is suitable for business adoption.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/2/24identity managementblockchaininternet of thingsdistributed ledger technologysensoraccess control |
| spellingShingle | Mohammed Amine Bouras Qinghua Lu Sahraoui Dhelim Huansheng Ning A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach Future Internet identity management blockchain internet of things distributed ledger technology sensor access control |
| title | A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach |
| title_full | A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach |
| title_fullStr | A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach |
| title_short | A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach |
| title_sort | lightweight blockchain based iot identity management approach |
| topic | identity management blockchain internet of things distributed ledger technology sensor access control |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/2/24 |
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