TY - GEN
T1 - A blockchain based approach to resource sharing in smart neighbourhoods
AU - Muni Venkateswarlu, Kumaramangalam
AU - Avizheh, Sepideh
AU - Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Sharing resources is a growing trend in today’s world. Sharing allows larger groups of individuals to benefit from available resources, hence optimizing the resource consumption. Sharing however demands a level of trust and control on the outcome: one needs to have confidence that a shared item will be used according to a prior agreement. In this paper we rely on geographic proximity of users to provide as an initial level of trust, and use this trust to develop a platform for sharing digital goods in a geographic neighbourhood. We require the platform to allow users to express their preferences and be confident about the sharing outcome. Our proposed platform uses a permissioned blockchain that is maintained by network providers whose subscribers are in the same geographic area, and use attribute-based access control to specify and control accesses to the shared items. Our proposed system uses smart contracts to enforce the conditions of access. We analyze security of the proposed design and discuss directions for future work.
AB - Sharing resources is a growing trend in today’s world. Sharing allows larger groups of individuals to benefit from available resources, hence optimizing the resource consumption. Sharing however demands a level of trust and control on the outcome: one needs to have confidence that a shared item will be used according to a prior agreement. In this paper we rely on geographic proximity of users to provide as an initial level of trust, and use this trust to develop a platform for sharing digital goods in a geographic neighbourhood. We require the platform to allow users to express their preferences and be confident about the sharing outcome. Our proposed platform uses a permissioned blockchain that is maintained by network providers whose subscribers are in the same geographic area, and use attribute-based access control to specify and control accesses to the shared items. Our proposed system uses smart contracts to enforce the conditions of access. We analyze security of the proposed design and discuss directions for future work.
KW - Access control
KW - Permissioned blockchain
KW - Resource sharing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85089626239
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-54455-3_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-54455-3_39
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089626239
SN - 9783030544546
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 550
EP - 567
BT - Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2020 International Workshops, AsiaUSEC, CoDeFi, VOTING, and WTSC, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Bernhard, Matthew
A2 - Bracciali, Andrea
A2 - Camp, L. Jean
A2 - Matsuo, Shin’ichiro
A2 - Maurushat, Alana
A2 - Rønne, Peter B.
A2 - Sala, Massimiliano
PB - Springer
T2 - 1st Asian Workshop on Usable Security, AsiaUSEC 2020, the 1st Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDeFi 2020, the 5th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, VOTING 2020, and the 4th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2020, held at the 24th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2020
Y2 - 14 February 2020 through 14 February 2020
ER -