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A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach

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  • Mohammed Amine Bouras

    (The School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Qinghua Lu

    (Data61, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra 2601, Australia)

  • Sahraoui Dhelim

    (The School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Huansheng Ning

    (The School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China)

Abstract

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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  • Mohammed Amine Bouras & Qinghua Lu & Sahraoui Dhelim & Huansheng Ning, 2021. "A Lightweight Blockchain-Based IoT Identity Management Approach," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-14, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:13:y:2021:i:2:p:24-:d:485560
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    Cited by:

    1. Dénes László Fekete & Attila Kiss, 2021. "A Survey of Ledger Technology-Based Databases," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-22, July.
    2. Yehia Ibrahim Alzoubi & Ahmad Al-Ahmad & Hasan Kahtan & Ashraf Jaradat, 2022. "Internet of Things and Blockchain Integration: Security, Privacy, Technical, and Design Challenges," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-48, July.
    3. Bhaskar P. Rimal & Cuiyu Kong & Bikrant Poudel & Yong Wang & Pratima Shahi, 2022. "Smart Electric Vehicle Charging in the Era of Internet of Vehicles, Emerging Trends, and Open Issues," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-24, March.
    4. Karam Eddine Bilami & Pascal LORENZ, 2022. "Lightweight Blockchain-Based Scheme to Secure Wireless M2M Area Networks," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-19, May.

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