TY - GEN
T1 - DRMF
T2 - 18th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2019
AU - Lahbib, Asma
AU - Toumi, Khalifa
AU - Laouiti, Anis
AU - Martin, Steven
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - While smart factories are becoming widely recognized as a fundamental concept of Industry 4.0, their implementation has posed several challenges insofar that they generate, process, and exchange vast amounts of security critical and privacy sensitive data, which makes them attractive targets of attacks and unauthorized access. Security requirements in such scenario include integrity, confidentiality, traceability and notarization of exchanged data in the one hand plus access control, privacy and trust in the other one. In this context, we design a distributed resource management framework using the emerging smart contracts technology for Industry 4.0 applications and more specifically for smart factories environments. This last, named DRMF, utilizes three Ethereum smart contracts specifically a Governance Contract (GC), an Access Contract (AC) and a Lookup Contract (LC) that are respectively responsible for the registration of new joining entities as well as those requesting consensus partaking permissions, second the dynamic access authorization and third the mapping between the required services and contracts ensuring their management. Using the blockchain technology, this framework is expected to achieve distributed, flexible, verifiable and trustworthy access control in addition to a transparent, traceable and notarized resource usage and sharing. Results from a real implementation plus performance evaluation prove the proposed concept and demonstrate its feasibility.
AB - While smart factories are becoming widely recognized as a fundamental concept of Industry 4.0, their implementation has posed several challenges insofar that they generate, process, and exchange vast amounts of security critical and privacy sensitive data, which makes them attractive targets of attacks and unauthorized access. Security requirements in such scenario include integrity, confidentiality, traceability and notarization of exchanged data in the one hand plus access control, privacy and trust in the other one. In this context, we design a distributed resource management framework using the emerging smart contracts technology for Industry 4.0 applications and more specifically for smart factories environments. This last, named DRMF, utilizes three Ethereum smart contracts specifically a Governance Contract (GC), an Access Contract (AC) and a Lookup Contract (LC) that are respectively responsible for the registration of new joining entities as well as those requesting consensus partaking permissions, second the dynamic access authorization and third the mapping between the required services and contracts ensuring their management. Using the blockchain technology, this framework is expected to achieve distributed, flexible, verifiable and trustworthy access control in addition to a transparent, traceable and notarized resource usage and sharing. Results from a real implementation plus performance evaluation prove the proposed concept and demonstrate its feasibility.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Smart factories
KW - access management
KW - governance
KW - notarization
KW - smart contracts
U2 - 10.1109/NCA.2019.8935019
DO - 10.1109/NCA.2019.8935019
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85077970641
T3 - 2019 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2019
BT - 2019 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2019
A2 - Gkoulalas-Divanis, Aris
A2 - Marchetti, Mirco
A2 - Avresky, Dimiter R.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 26 September 2019 through 28 September 2019
ER -