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Three-tier Storage Framework Based on TBchain and IPFS for Protecting IoT Security and Privacy

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Xingwei WangAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Volume 23, Issue 3

Article No.: 37, Pages 1 - 28

https://doi.org/10.1145/3549910

Published: 21 August 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Recently, most of the Internet of things (IoT) infrastructures are highly centralized with single points of failure, which results in serious security and privacy issues of IoT data. Fortunately, blockchain technique can provide a decentralized and secure IoT framework to deal with security issues based on the characteristics of decentralization, non-tampering, openness, transparency, and traceability. However, the blockchain consensus protocol guarantees the safety and reliability of data, but it also brings problems such as scalability limitations and poor storage extensibility, resulting in the inability to directly integrate blockchain and the IoT in existing conditions. In this article, a private three-tier local blockchain, Three-tier architecture Blockchain (TBchain), is proposed to solve the problem by splitting part of the transactions in the public blockchain and locking them in a higher-level blockchain TBchain. Additionally, the private blockchain TBchain is connected to the public blockchain to build a hierarchical blockchain network to provide privacy protection for the IoT data stored on the blockchain. Finally, we implement an IoT framework based on TBchain and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to realize the decentralized IoT, which guarantees the user’s access control right to personal data. Experimental results show that the IoT framework based on TBchain and IPFS realizes the user’s access control right to personal data by verifying in advance to ensure the confidentiality and security of shared data, and improves the security and privacy of IoT data and transactions. Moreover, we prove that the scalability and storage extensibility of the blockchain is positively correlated with the number of data blocks in TBchain.

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Three-tier Storage Framework Based on TBchain and IPFS for Protecting IoT Security and Privacy
1. Information systems
  1. Information storage systems
2. Security and privacy
  1. Database and storage security
    1. Information accountability and usage control

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 23, Issue 3

August 2023

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ISSN:1533-5399

EISSN:1557-6051

DOI:10.1145/3615983

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Ling Liu
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Published: 21 August 2023

Online AM: 05 September 2022

Accepted: 17 January 2022

Revised: 21 September 2021

Received: 27 December 2020

Published in TOIT Volume 23, Issue 3

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Dong DFeng H(2024)Design and use of a wireless temperature measurement network system integrating artificial intelligence and blockchain in electrical power engineeringPLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.029639819:1(e0296398)Online publication date: 2-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296398
Devi CAnand RHemalatha RMaheswari B(2024)Duo‐HInternational Journal of Network Management10.1002/nem.230034:6Online publication date: 12-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/nem.2300
Liu FWang P(2023)A novel privacy protection method of residents’ travel trajectories based on federated blockchain and InterPlanetary file systems in smart citiesPeerJ Computer Science10.7717/peerj-cs.14959(e1495)Online publication date: 27-Jul-2023
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