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A unified framework for data integrity protection in people-centric smart cities

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With the rapid increase in urbanisation, the concept of smart cities has attracted considerable attention. By leveraging emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and cloud computing, smart cities have the potential to improve various indicators of residents’ quality of life. However, threats to data integrity may affect the delivery of such benefits, especially in the IoT environment where most devices are inherently dynamic and have limited resources. Prior work has focused on ensuring integrity of data in a piecemeal manner and covering only some parts of the smart city ecosystem. In this paper, we address integrity of data from an end-to-end perspective, i.e., from the data source to the data consumer. We propose a holistic framework for ensuring integrity of data in smart cities that covers the entire data lifecycle. Our framework is founded on three fundamental concepts, namely, secret sharing, fog computing and blockchain. We provide a detailed description of various components of the framework and also utilize smart healthcare as use case.

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    May Altulyan, Lina Yao, Salil S. Kanhere & Chaoran Huang

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Altulyan, M., Yao, L., Kanhere, S.S. et al. A unified framework for data integrity protection in people-centric smart cities. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 4989–5002 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7182-7

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