Blockchain-based secure storage management with edge computing for IoT
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Date
2014
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MDPI
Abstract
As a core technology to manage decentralized systems, blockchain is gaining much
popularity to deploy such applications as smart grid and healthcare systems. However, its utilization
in resource-constrained mobile devices is limited due to high demands of resources and poor
scalability with frequent-intensive transactions. Edge computing can be integrated to facilitate mobile
devices in offloading their mining tasks to cloud resources. This integration ensures reliable access,
distributed computation and untampered storage for scalable and secure transactions. It is imperative
therefore that crucial issues of security, scalability and resources management be addressed to achieve
successful integration. Studies have been conducted to explore suitable architectural requirements,
and some researchers have applied the integration to deploy some specific applications. Despite
these efforts, however, issues of anonymity, adaptability and integrity still need to be investigated
further to attain a practical, secure decentralized data storage. We based our study on peer-to-peer
and blockchain to achieve an Internet of Things (IoT) design supported by edge computing to acquire
security and scalability levels needed for the integration. We investigated existing blockchain and
associated technologies to discover solutions that address anonymity, integrity and adaptability
issues for successful integration of blockchain in IoT systems. The discovered solutions were then
incorporated in our conceptual design of the decentralized application prototype presented for secure
storage of IoT data and transactions.
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Keywords
Blockchain, IoT, Edge computing, Peer-to-peer, Security