Secure Service Provisioning Scheme for Lightweight IoT Devices with a Fair Payment System and an Incentive Mechanism based on Blockchain

Turki Ali Alghamdi, Ishtiaq Ali, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Shafiq
2019 IEEE Access  
The Internet of Things (IoT) industry is growing very fast to transform factories, homes, farms and practically everything else to make them efficient and intelligent. IoT is applied in different resilient scenarios and applications. IoT faces lots of challenges due to lack of computational power, battery and storage resources. Fortunately, the rise of blockchain technology facilitates IoT in many security solutions. Using blockchain, communication between IoT and emerging computing
more » ... is made efficient. In this work, we propose a secure service provisioning scheme with a fair payment system for Lightweight Clients (LCs) based on blockchain. Furthermore, an incentive mechanism based on reputation is proposed. We use consortium blockchain with the Proof of Authority (PoA) consensus mechanism. Furthermore, we use Smart Contracts (SCs) to validate the services provided by the Service Providers (SPs) to the LCs, transfer cryptocurrency to the SPs and maintain the reputation of the SPs. Moreover, the Keccak256 hashing algorithm is used for converting the data of arbitrary size to the hash of fixed size. AES128 encryption technique is used to encrypt service codes before sending to the LCs. The simulation results show that the LCs receive validated services from the SPs at an affordable cost. The results also depict that the participation rate of SPs is increased because of the incentive mechanism. INDEX TERMS Blockchain, secure service provisioning, IoT, incentive mechanism, lightweight clients, PoA. 1048 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see . His research interests include the Internet-of-Things (IoT), the cognitive radio-based IoT networks-architecture & design, mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, performance, management, and security, 5G cellular networks, admission control, and mobility management, device-to-device communications, medium access control protocols, the Internet routing protocols, spectrum trading and auctions, information systems, design, and access control, and human-computer-interaction.
doi:10.1109/access.2019.2961612 fatcat:tndocyoqm5bl7nznlg5shanevq