Paper Info
Title
Blockchain-Based IoT-Cloud Authorization and Delegation
Abstract
In a Smart City scenario, the authors envisioned an IoT-Cloud framework for the management of boards and resources scattered over a geographic area. It can also become a tool to let device owners contribute freely to the infrastructure. In comparison to datacenter-oriented Cloud middleware, the administrator and the owner of the infrastructure are not one and the same. This translates into the requirement to support delegation-enabled authorization. In this paper, the authors investigate an authorization and delegation model for the IoT-Cloud based on blockchain technology. In particular, the scheme is implemented in the form of smart contracts over the Ethereum platform. Indeed, this approach represents an enhancement, over a function previously designed in a centralized fashion, by enabling the user to audit authorization operations and inspect how access control is actually performed, without blindly trusting the Cloud as a proxy for access to resources.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2018.00038
2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Smart Cities,IoT,Blockchain,Cloud,Smart Contracts,Ethereum,access control,authorization,delegation
Authentication,Audit,Computer security,Computer science,Authorization,Blockchain,Access control,Smart city,Delegation,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-4706-6
5
0.47
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nachiket Tapas1354.43
Giovanni Merlino220828.11
Francesco Longo339034.61