Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of Things
The field of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is now being duly recognized as a revolutionary area in industrial automation. With the budding interest of knowledge discovery that helps the businesses in applying technology on a large scale, researchers are now faced with several major security c...
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| author | Rohan Tripathi Ritam Rao Vivekananda Bhat K. Abhishek Kumar Pandey Ashok Kumar Das |
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| description | The field of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is now being duly recognized as a revolutionary area in industrial automation. With the budding interest of knowledge discovery that helps the businesses in applying technology on a large scale, researchers are now faced with several major security concerns. Blockchain integration is one of the suggested applications of technology that could help secure the data during transmission, storage, and knowledge discovery. Moreover, by integrating smart contracts, a secure architecture could also assimilate accountability during data exchange. Thus, we propose a four-layer security architecture that isolates IIoT devices from user-oriented layers and maintains a record of all IIoT devices registered in the organization to prevent malicious devices from corrupting the database and discovery process. Further, by choosing proof of authority (PoA), we ensure the fair functioning of the Blockchain nodes. Through proxy re-encryption for clients, PoA consensus for Blockchain nodes, and Whitelist-based access control for IIoT Devices, we ensure the legitimacy of all participating nodes. We also implement a prototype using a private Ethereum network with proof of authority consensus and present the time taken for the entire exchange and the gas (ethereum currency) consumed per exchange by the contracts. Also we implemented the secure knowledge discovery to understand the significance of the developed scheme. The results show that the exchange can be implemented in an IIoT environment and work with a reasonable amount of resource consumption. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3fe1f1f485754bcf91fae6fe4d603a532025-08-20T02:32:41ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society2644-125X2025-01-0164772478710.1109/OJCOMS.2025.357481611017668Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of ThingsRohan Tripathi0https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7083-4152Ritam Rao1https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5890-9046Vivekananda Bhat K.2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3411-9221Abhishek Kumar Pandey3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4021-9819Ashok Kumar Das4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5196-9589Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, IndiaCenter for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, IndiaCenter for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, IndiaThe field of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is now being duly recognized as a revolutionary area in industrial automation. With the budding interest of knowledge discovery that helps the businesses in applying technology on a large scale, researchers are now faced with several major security concerns. Blockchain integration is one of the suggested applications of technology that could help secure the data during transmission, storage, and knowledge discovery. Moreover, by integrating smart contracts, a secure architecture could also assimilate accountability during data exchange. Thus, we propose a four-layer security architecture that isolates IIoT devices from user-oriented layers and maintains a record of all IIoT devices registered in the organization to prevent malicious devices from corrupting the database and discovery process. Further, by choosing proof of authority (PoA), we ensure the fair functioning of the Blockchain nodes. Through proxy re-encryption for clients, PoA consensus for Blockchain nodes, and Whitelist-based access control for IIoT Devices, we ensure the legitimacy of all participating nodes. We also implement a prototype using a private Ethereum network with proof of authority consensus and present the time taken for the entire exchange and the gas (ethereum currency) consumed per exchange by the contracts. Also we implemented the secure knowledge discovery to understand the significance of the developed scheme. The results show that the exchange can be implemented in an IIoT environment and work with a reasonable amount of resource consumption.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11017668/BlockchainIndustrial Internet of Things (IIoT)proxy re-encryptionwhitelist-based access controlprivacysecurity |
| spellingShingle | Rohan Tripathi Ritam Rao Vivekananda Bhat K. Abhishek Kumar Pandey Ashok Kumar Das Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of Things IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Blockchain Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) proxy re-encryption whitelist-based access control privacy security |
| title | Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of Things |
| title_full | Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of Things |
| title_fullStr | Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of Things |
| title_full_unstemmed | Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of Things |
| title_short | Secure Blockchain Integration Approach for Knowledge Discovery in Industrial Internet of Things |
| title_sort | secure blockchain integration approach for knowledge discovery in industrial internet of things |
| topic | Blockchain Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) proxy re-encryption whitelist-based access control privacy security |
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