Achieving IoT data security based blockchain

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Abstract

Security in Internet of Things (IoT) remains a significant concern within academia and industry. With the great potential of IoT data, the traditional centralized architecture of IoT system is limited and cannot afford security solutions. In this paper, to address the issue of IoT data security, we propose a blockchain-based data acquisition and processing architecture. The proposed architecture ensures IoT data security through data consistency. It supports distributed IoT nodes to negotiate consensus on the processed data, and decides to write the consensus data to blockchain ledger. Since distributed nodes are non-peer and have different voting weights in the proposed architecture, traditional consensus algorithms are not applicable. Therefore, we design a novel consensus algorithm for data consistency between non-peer nodes: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant consensus algorithm based on Dynamic Permission Adjustment (DPA-PBFT) algorithm. The DPA-PBFT algorithm works in the consensus domain of different weight nodes with the ability of self-optimize. It improves consensus efficiency and reduces communication overhead for data consistency. Finally, we conduct numerous experiments to evaluate the performance improvement of the DPA-PBFT algorithm under the proposed distributed architecture.

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This research was partially supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC0831002), Sichuan science and technology program (2020YFG0040), National Natural Science Foundation of China (61971105), Science and Technology on Complex Electronic System Simulation Laboratory (DXZT-JC-ZZ-2017-012).

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    Dan Liao, Hui Li, Wentao Wang, Xiong Wang, Ming Zhang & Xue Chen

  2. Chengdu Research Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

    Dan Liao, Hui Li & Ming Zhang

  3. Tianfu Collaborative Innovation Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

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Liao, D., Li, H., Wang, W. et al. Achieving IoT data security based blockchain. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-020-01042-w

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  • IoT
  • Blockchain
  • Data security
  • Consensus