Enabling Data Sharing Through Data Trusts in LEO Satellite Internet

Abstract

Due to the advantages of low latency, small propagation loss, and global coverage, LEO satellite network becomes a cost-effective long-distance communication solution for loT devices in remote areas. Nevertheless, the LEO satellite loT devices deployed for specific tasks are idle most of the time, raising the obvious question for future research: how to effectively share these idle sensing resources. Fortunately, data trusts emerge as a promising strategy to leverage the idle sensing resources. How-ever, the data trust model faces privacy and security challenges in LEO satellite loT scenarios to achieve trusted data trading. Therefore, this article proposes a blockchain-enabled data trust model and a trusted data trading scheme for device providers, data trustees, and general users. Furthermore, exploiting the homomorphic encryption technology, we realize the fine-grained data query and device match in the premise of privacy protection for device providers and general users. Lastly, considering the openness of satellite-terrestrial communication links and the limited computing power of LEO satellite loT devices, we design a non-interactive lightweight authentication protocol based on zero-knowledge proof. The simulation results verify the feasibility, effectiveness, and security performance of the proposed data sharing for LEO satellite loT.