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Blockchain DrivenAccess control architecture for the internet of things

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In the last few years, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain (BC) technology have been ruling their respective research area. The integration of IoT and Blockchain enables delivering many effective and prominent services by incorporating in-built features like scalability, flexibility, and resilience along with availability and integrity. However, taking into account the constrained nature of IoT devices, it’s quite hard to implement BC peers on top of IoT devices. Additionally, the rate at which transactions are produced by a huge number of constrained devices, BC could not handle effectively. The proposed work presented a solution to cater to these challenges. It incorporates the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) for the distribution of resources generated by IoT devices. The proposed system is based on the Hyperledger Fabric BC framework and comprises smart contracts that are accountable for policy definition, policy enforcement, user identity management, and data retrieval. The experimental results illustrate that the running time taken by smart contract methods of the proposed solution is fairly less than the prominent work in the same domain. The performance evaluation clearly depicts how effectively the presented model achieves Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity, and prevents DoS and DDoS attacks.

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Mishra, R.K., Yadav, R.K. & Nath, P. Blockchain DrivenAccess control architecture for the internet of things. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 31397–31421 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14881-5

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