Censorship resistant decentralized IoT management systems

Songlin He, Qiang Tang, Chase Q. Wu

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4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Blockchain technology has been increasingly used for decentralizing cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) architectures to address some limitations faced by centralized systems. While many existing efforts are successful in leveraging blockchain for decentralization with multiple servers (full nodes) to handle faulty nodes, an important issue has arisen that external clients (also called lightweight clients) have to rely on a relay node to communicate with the full nodes in the blockchain. Compromization of such relay nodes may result in a security breach and even a blockage of IoT sensors from the network. We propose censorship resistant decentralized IoT management systems, which include a “diffusion” function to deliver all messages from sensors to all full nodes and an augmented consensus protocol to check data loss, replicate processing outcome, and facilitate opportunistic outcome delivery. We also leverage the cryptographic tool of aggregate signature to reduce the complexity of communication and signature verification.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems
Subtitle of host publicationComputing, Networking and Services, Mobiquitous 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages454-459
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450360937
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 5 2018
Event15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, Mobiquitous 2018 - New York, United States
Duration: Nov 5 2018Nov 7 2018

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Other

Other15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, Mobiquitous 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period11/5/1811/7/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Cryptography
  • Internet of Things

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