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Using Blockchain to Support Data and Service Management in IoV/IoT

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Security with Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services (SICBS 2017)

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Abstract

Two required features of a data monetization platform are query and retrieval of the metadata of the resources to be monetized. Centralized platforms rely on the maturity of traditional NoSQL database systems to support these features. These databases for example MongoDB allows for very efficient query and retrieval of data it stores. However, centralized platforms come with a bag of security and privacy concerns, making them not the ideal approach for a data monetization platform. On the other hand, most existing decentralized platforms are only partially decentralized. In this research, we developed Cowry, a platform for publishing of metadata describing available resources (data or services), discovery of published resources including fast search and filtering. Our main contribution is a fully decentralized architecture that combines blockchain and traditional distributed database to gain additional features such as efficient query and retrieval of metadata stored on the blockchain.

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  1. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Obaro Odiete & Ralph Deters

  2. Pennsylvania State University, Monaca, PA, USA

    Richard K. Lomotey

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Sheng-Lung Peng

  2. Department of Information Management, Central Police University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Shiuh-Jeng Wang

  3. Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Valentina Emilia Balas

  4. School of Computer Technology, Jingzhou, China

    Ming Zhao

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Odiete, O., Lomotey, R.K., Deters, R. (2018). Using Blockchain to Support Data and Service Management in IoV/IoT. In: Peng, SL., Wang, SJ., Balas, V., Zhao, M. (eds) Security with Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services. SICBS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 733. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76451-1_33

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