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Today, a variety of advanced Internet-of-Things applications like data collection apps for ambient assisted living services supporting elder patients or for the surveillance of smart homes are developed everywhere. Regarding such application scenarios and the requirement to securely disseminate the collected data, we present a fog computing architecture that integrates blockchain technology for privacy aware data sharing. The latter fog-blockchain prototype is based on a private, permissioned blockchain paradigm. We discuss a lightweight implementation of our proposed integrated fog node architecture using Hyperledger Fabric as blockchain with a peer-to-peer network among cheap single-board-computers as basic data collecting peers. Furthermore, we investigate the computing and network performance indices of our prototypical lightweight fog computing architecture.
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This feasibility study was done while Mr. Mullick was working in the Computer Networks group at the University of Bamberg. The other authors are very much indebted to his efforts in implementing a first prototype of the integrated fog-blockchain architecture with Hyperledger Fabric.
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Mullick, M.R.H., Großmann, M., Krieger, U.R. (2023). A Feasibility Study of a Lightweight Fog Computing Architecture Integrating Blockchain Technology for Smart E-Health Applications. In: Krieger, U.R., Eichler, G., Erfurth, C., Fahrnberger, G. (eds) Innovations for Community Services. I4CS 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40852-6_14
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