Blockchain Meets IoT: An Architecture for Scalable Access Management in IoT

【Author】 Novo, Oscar

【Source】IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL

【影响因子】10.238

【Abstract】The Internet of Things (IoT) is stepping out of its infancy into full maturity and establishing itself as a part of the future Internet. One of the technical challenges of having billions of devices deployed worldwide is the ability to manage them. Although access management technologies exist in IoT, they are based on centralized models which introduce a new variety of technical limitations to manage them globally. In this paper, we propose a new architecture for arbitrating roles and permissions in IoT. The new architecture is a fully distributed access control system for IoT based on blockchain technology. The architecture is backed by a proof of concept implementation and evaluated in realistic IoT scenarios. The results show that the blockchain technology could be used as access management technology in specific scalable IoT scenarios.

【Keywords】Access control; blockchain; Internet of Things (IoT); smart contracts

【发表时间】2018 APR

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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