Cpds: Enabling Compressed and Private Data Sharing for Industrial Internet of Things Over Blockchain

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising technology to provide product traceability for industrial systems. By using sensing and networking techniques, an IoT-enabled industrial system enables its participants to efficiently track products and record their status during production process. Current industrial IoT systems lack a unified product data sharing service, which prevents the participants from acquiring trusted traceability of products. Using emerging blockchain technology to build such a service is a promising direction. However, directly storing product data on blockchain incurs in efficiency and privacy issues in data management due to its distributed infrastructure. In response, we propose Cpds, a compressed and private data sharing framework, that provides efficient and private data management for product data stored on the blockchain. Cpds devises two new mechanisms to store compressed and policy-enforced product data on the blockchain. As a result, multiple industrial participants can efficiently share product data with fine-grained access control in a distributed environment without relying on a trusted intermediary. We conduct extensive empirical studies and demonstrate the feasibility of Cpds in improving the efficiency and security protection of product data storage on the blockchain.