A trust-evaluation-enhanced blockchain-secured industrial iot system

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2021

Abstract

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), allowing direct wireless communications between industrial machines and people, is the key component of Industry 4.0. By grouping several IIoT devices (IIoT-Ds) into IIoT groups (IIoT-Gs), the IIoT-Ds within one group can share information and deter malicious users from accessing the network by modifying the access control list (ACL) in IIoT-Ds. In an IIoT-G, several IIoT-Ds jointly manage the access control of IIoT sensors. The security of ACL is protected by blockchains deployed in IIoT-Ds. Even secured by blockchains, a blockchain-based IIoT-G (B-IIoT-G) still cannot secure correct access control in a system with more than half of the blockchain-based IIoT-Ds (B-IIoT-Ds) from spreading wrong authorization information. In this article, we propose a B-IIoT-G with trust evaluation for each B-IIoT-D to evaluate the weight in voting for final decisions of authorization. By designing a new voting mechanism with trust evaluation for the access control in B-IIoT-G, the system has a higher probability of making correct authorization even with malicious B-IIoT-Ds. Simulation results have demonstrated that the mechanism with trust evaluation can still make, with a high probability, correct authorization even with more than half of the B-IIoT-Ds in B-IIoT-G being malicious.

Identifier

85103321706 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2020.3030689

e-ISSN

23274662

First Page

5510

Last Page

5517

Issue

7

Volume

8

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