Blockchain and PUF-based secure key establishment protocol for cross- domain digital twins in industrial Internet of Things architecture

【Author】 Mahmood, Khalid; Shamshad, Salman; Saleem, Muhammad Asad; Kharel, Rupak; Das, Ashok Kumar; Shetty, Sachin; Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C.

【Source】JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH

【影响因子】12.822

【Abstract】Introduction:: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a technology that connects devices to collect data and conduct in-depth analysis to provide value-added services to industries. The integration of the physical and digital domains is crucial for unlocking the full potential of the IIoT, and digital twins can facilitate this integration by providing a virtual representation of real-world entities. Objectives:: By combining digital twins with the IIoT, industries can simulate, predict, and control phys- ical behaviors, enabling them to achieve broader value and support industry 4.0 and 5.0. Constituents of cooperative IIoT domains tend to interact and collaborate during their complicated operations. Methods:: To secure such interaction and collaborations, we introduce a blockchain-based cross-domain authentication protocol for IIoT. The blockchain maintains only each domain's dynamic accumulator, which accumulates crucial materials derived from devices, decreasing the overhead. In addition, we use the on-chain accumulator to effectively validate the unlinkable identities of cross-domain IIoT devices. Results:: The implementation of the concept reveals the fact that our protocol is efficient and reliable. This efficiency and reliability of our protocol is also substantiated through comparison with state-of- the-art literature. In contrast to related protocols, our protocol exhibits a minimum 22.67% increase in computation cost efficiency and a 16.35% rise in communication cost efficiency. Conclusion:: The developed protocol guarantees data transfer security across the domain and thwarts IoT devices from potential physical attacks. Additionally, in order to protect privacy, anonymity and unlink- ability are also guaranteed. (c) 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cairo University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

【Keywords】Digital twins; Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); Mutual authentication; Key agreement; Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)

【发表时间】2024 AUG

【收录时间】2024-07-29

【文献类型】实验仿真

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区块链应用-实体经济-物联网