TY - GEN
T1 - Blockchain Federation Enabled Trustable Internet of Things
AU - Wan, Zhitao
AU - Cai, Minqiang
AU - Hua, Xiuping
AU - Yang, Jinqing
AU - Lin, Xianghua
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Internet of Things (IoT) provides an infrastructure enabling advanced functions based on interoperable information and communication technologies by interconnecting physical and virtual things. IoT has gained more and more attention from both academy and industry. However, the design, maintenance, and governance of IoT are facing challenges because of an enormous amount of heterogeneous devices involved. IoT requires strengthening its trustable features. The blockchains are immutable distributed ledger systems supporting trustable features including security, scalability, privacy, safety, and connectivity usually without a central authority. Due to the complexity of IoT system any current blockchain cannot satisfy all demands of heterogeneous devices, networks, and higher level functionalities. This paper proposes a novel reference architecture combines Blockchain Federation with IoT to make IoT capable of being trusted. The architecture enables trustable features by integrating blockchains with different IoT tiers and layers. Proof of concept system is implemented to demonstrate the correctness and feasibility of the architecture. Furthermore, the future directions of Blockchain Federation and IoT evolution are discussed.
AB - The Internet of Things (IoT) provides an infrastructure enabling advanced functions based on interoperable information and communication technologies by interconnecting physical and virtual things. IoT has gained more and more attention from both academy and industry. However, the design, maintenance, and governance of IoT are facing challenges because of an enormous amount of heterogeneous devices involved. IoT requires strengthening its trustable features. The blockchains are immutable distributed ledger systems supporting trustable features including security, scalability, privacy, safety, and connectivity usually without a central authority. Due to the complexity of IoT system any current blockchain cannot satisfy all demands of heterogeneous devices, networks, and higher level functionalities. This paper proposes a novel reference architecture combines Blockchain Federation with IoT to make IoT capable of being trusted. The architecture enables trustable features by integrating blockchains with different IoT tiers and layers. Proof of concept system is implemented to demonstrate the correctness and feasibility of the architecture. Furthermore, the future directions of Blockchain Federation and IoT evolution are discussed.
KW - Blockchain Federation
KW - Internet of Things (IoT)
KW - Trustable
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092107792&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-59595-1_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-59595-1_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85092107792
SN - 9783030595944
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 61
EP - 76
BT - Services – SERVICES 2020 - 16th World Congress, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Ferreira, Joao Eduardo
A2 - Palanisamy, Balaji
A2 - Ye, Kejiang
A2 - Kantamneni, Siva
A2 - Zhang, Liang-Jie
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 16th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2020, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020
Y2 - 18 September 2020 through 20 September 2020
ER -
