Secure Data Sharing for Cross-domain Industrial IoT Based on Consortium Blockchain

Abstract

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is considered one of the most revolutionary technologies that can significantly improve manufacturing efficiency and realize intelligent production. With the increasing complexity of industrial manufacturing, the manufacturing process of a product often involves several different IoT domains (e.g., factories). To achieve a common production goal, devices from various domains share their data for cooperative work, which raises privacy and security concerns for cross-domain communication. Most existing data-sharing schemes rely on a trusted third party. Hence, the privacy and security issues in cross-domain data sharing are still challenging research directions. This paper proposes CBDS, a consortiumblockchain-based cross-domain IIoT data-sharing mechanism. Specifically, we introduce consortium blockchain to construct trust among different domains in IIoT. A group signature is presented to ensure each device’s privacy to achieve anonymous authentication. In addition, the collected data should be stored in the ciphertext. The smart contract and proxy re-encryption are utilized in the CBDS to realize secure cross-domain data sharing. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed CBDS.