Paper Info
Title
BlendMAS: A Blockchain-Enabled Decentralized Microservices Architecture for Smart Public Safety
Abstract
Thanks to rapid technological advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), a smart public safety (SPS) system has become feasible by integrating heterogeneous computing devices to collaboratively provide public protection services. While service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been adopted by IoT and cyber-physical systems (CPS), it is difficult for a monolithic architecture to provide scalable and extensible services for a distributed IoT based SPS system. Furthermore, traditional security solutions rely on a centralized authority, which can be a performance bottleneck or single point failure. Inspired by microservices architecture and blockchain technology, this paper proposes a BLockchain-ENabled Decentralized Microservices Architecture for Smart public safety (BlendMAS). Within a permissioned blockchain network, a microservices based security mechanism is introduced to secure data access control in an SPS system. The functionality of security services is decoupled into separate containerized microservices that are built using a smart contract and deployed on edge and fog computing nodes. An extensive experimental study verified that the proposed BlendMAS is able to offer a decentralized, scalable and secured data sharing and access control to distributed IoT based SPS system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/Blockchain.2019.00082
2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Blockchain,Microservices Architecture,Smart Contract,Internet of Things (IoT),Smart Public Safety (SPS)
Single point of failure,Computer science,Data sharing,Symmetric multiprocessor system,Computer network,Access control,Microservices,Service-oriented architecture,Smart contract,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
abs/1902.10567
978-1-7281-4694-2
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ronghua Xu140.43
Seyed Yahya Nikouei2466.15
Yu Chen382480.54
Erik Blasch4105190.91
Alexander J. Aved54811.59