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Time-Based Access Control for Multi-attribute Data in Internet of Things

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Internet of Things (IoT) has become a vital part of our infrastructure to enrich lives and make processes easier. In these people-centric IoT applications, massive personal data are collected in real-time and stored by the resource constrained sensor network. Because any misusage of these personal data might result in the leakage of privacy and economic losses, it is expected that the data requesters can only access to the data what they have purchased, or are entitled to use. How to accurately control data access permissions is one of the prerequisites for IoT data protection. Based on a revised one-way hash chain technique, we proposed a novel Time-based Access Control (TAC) scheme for multi-attribute data in Internet of Things. All the data are partitioned into 2-D subspaces representing generation time and data attribute. Data in each subspace is encrypted with the corresponding sub-key before its transmission to the base station to achieve data privacy and access control. Anyone who wants to read or use data with specified attribute at a particular time must get the corresponding sub-key from the data source node or the owner. TAC can generate a sub-key for data in each subspace in an efficient manner in terms of less sub-key generation time and low memory space usage. We proposed three improved schemes to further reduce sub-key computation time according to different application scenarios. The experimental results show that TAC can be applied to the resource limited WSNs efficiently.

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This work is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61972207, U1836208, U1836110, U1536206, 61772283, 61602253, 61672294, the Major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China under Grant No. 17ZDA092, the 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center for Development and Utilization of Finance and Economics Big Data Property, Universities of Hunan Province, Open Project, under Grant No. 20181901CRP04, the Electronic Information and Control of Fujian University Engineering Research Center Fund under Grant No. EIC1704, the National Key R and D Program of China under Grant No. 2018YFB1003205, the CICAEET (Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology) fund and PAPD (Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions) fund.

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  1. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Baowei Wang & Wei Li

  2. Electronic Information and Control of Fujian University Engineering Research Center, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, 350108, China

    Baowei Wang & Wei Li

  3. Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, NUIST, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Baowei Wang & Wei Li

  4. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, USA

    Neal N. Xiong

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Wang, B., Li, W. & Xiong, N.N. Time-Based Access Control for Multi-attribute Data in Internet of Things. Mobile Netw Appl 26, 797–807 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-019-01327-2

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