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Towards Secure Network Computing Services for Lightweight Clients Using Blockchain
Joint Authors
Zhang, Yaoxue
Wang, Guojun
Xu, Yang
Ren, Ju
Yang, Jidian
Zhang, Cheng
Source
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-11-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
The emerging network computing technologies have significantly extended the abilities of the resource-constrained IoT devices through the network-based service sharing techniques.
However, such a flexible and scalable service provisioning paradigm brings increased security risks to terminals due to the untrustworthy exogenous service codes loading from the open network.
Many existing security approaches are unsuitable for IoT environments due to the high difficulty of maintenance or the dependencies upon extra resources like specific hardware.
Fortunately, the rise of blockchain technology has facilitated the development of service sharing methods and, at the same time, it appears a viable solution to numerous security problems.
In this paper, we propose a novel blockchain-based secure service provisioning mechanism for protecting lightweight clients from insecure services in network computing scenarios.
We introduce the blockchain to maintain all the validity states of the off-chain services and edge service providers for the IoT terminals to help them get rid of untrusted or discarded services through provider identification and service verification.
In addition, we take advantage of smart contracts which can be triggered by the lightweight clients to help them check the validities of service providers and service codes according to the on-chain transactions, thereby reducing the direct overhead on the IoT devices.
Moreover, the adoptions of the consortium blockchain and the proof of authority consensus mechanism also help to achieve a high throughput.
The theoretical security analysis and evaluation results show that our approach helps the lightweight clients get rid of untrusted edge service providers and insecure services effectively with acceptable latency and affordable costs.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Xu, Yang& Wang, Guojun& Yang, Jidian& Ren, Ju& Zhang, Yaoxue& Zhang, Cheng. 2018. Towards Secure Network Computing Services for Lightweight Clients Using Blockchain. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1215780
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Xu, Yang…[et al.]. Towards Secure Network Computing Services for Lightweight Clients Using Blockchain. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1215780
American Medical Association (AMA)
Xu, Yang& Wang, Guojun& Yang, Jidian& Ren, Ju& Zhang, Yaoxue& Zhang, Cheng. Towards Secure Network Computing Services for Lightweight Clients Using Blockchain. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1215780
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1215780