Title
Private Multi-Hop Accountability for Supply Chains
Abstract
Today's supply chains are becoming increasingly flexible in nature. While adaptability is vastly increased, these more dynamic associations necessitate more extensive data sharing among different stakeholders while simultaneously overturning previously established levels of trust. Hence, manufacturers' demand to track goods and to investigate root causes of issues across their supply chains becomes more challenging to satisfy within these now untrusted environments. Complementarily, suppliers need to keep any data irrelevant to such routine checks secret to remain competitive. To bridge the needs of contractors and suppliers in increasingly flexible supply chains, we thus propose to establish a privacy-preserving and distributed multi-hop accountability log among the involved stakeholders based on Attribute-based Encryption and backed by a blockchain. Our large-scale feasibility study is motivated by a real-world manufacturing process, i.e., a fine blanking line, and reveals only modest costs for multi-hop tracing and tracking of goods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145100
2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
supply chain,multi-hop tracking and tracing,blockchain,attribute-based encryption,Internet of Production
Conference
2164-7038
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-7440-2
4
0.42
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Pennekamp15610.99
Lennart Bader250.79
Roman Matzutt3497.53
Philipp Niemietz4132.72
Daniel Trauth5164.55
Martin Henze629524.86
Thomas Bergs7143.79
Klaus Wehrle81062105.97