A User Authentication Scheme of IoT Devices using Blockchain-Enabled Fog Nodes

Randa Almadhoun, Maha Kadadha, Maya Alhemeiri, Maryam Alshehhi, Khaled Salah

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Abstract

These days, IoT devices are deployed at a massive scale, with Cisco predicting 20 billion devices by the year 2020. As opposed to endpoint devices, IoT devices are resource-constrained devices, incapable of securing and defending themselves, and can be easily hacked and compromised. Fog computing can augment such capacity limitations by providing localized compute, storage, and networking for a group of IoT devices. As fog nodes are deployed in close proximity to IoT devices, fog computing can be more effective than cloud computing. Furthermore, Blockchain has emerged as technology with capabilities to provide secure management, authentication and access to IoT devices and their data, in decentralized manner with high trust, integrity, and resiliency. In this paper, we propose a user authentication scheme using blockhain-enabled fog nodes in which fog nodes interface to Ethereum smart contracts to authenticate users to access IoT devices. The fog nodes are used to provide scalability to the system by relieving the IoT devices from carrying out heavy computation involving tasks related to authentication and communicating with the blockchain. We describe system components, architecture and design, and we discuss key aspects related to security analysis, functionality, testing and implementation of the smart contracts. The full code of the smart contracts for authentication registry, lists, rules and logic is also made publicly available at Github.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2018 IEEE/ACS 15th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2018
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781538691205
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jan 2019
Event15th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2018 - Aqaba, Jordan
Duration: 28 Oct 20181 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA
Volume2018-November
ISSN (Print)2161-5322
ISSN (Electronic)2161-5330

Conference

Conference15th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2018
Country/TerritoryJordan
CityAqaba
Period28/10/181/11/18

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Blockchain
  • Edge Computing
  • Fog Computing
  • IoT
  • IoT Security

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