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Blockchain Meets IoT: An Architecture for Scalable Access Management in IoT

One of the technical challenges of having billions of devices deployed worldwide is the ability to manage them. Although access management technologies exist in IoT, they are based on centralized models that introduce a new variety of technical limitations to manage them globally.
Research paper
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In this paper, we propose a new architecture for arbitrating roles and permissions in IoT. The new architecture is a fully distributed access control system for IoT based on blockchain technology. The architecture is backed by a proof of concept implementation and evaluated in realistic IoT scenarios. The results show that the blockchain technology could be used as access management technology in specific scalable IoT scenarios.

Full abstract in IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2812239

Author

Oscar Novo

Published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Volume 5, Number 2, April 2018

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