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IBE-BCIOT: an IBE based cross-chain communication mechanism of blockchain in IoT

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Cross-platform difficulties, data privacy, and authentication security are common problems in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. Despite the fact that blockchain technology has brought new opportunities to the development of the IoT by enhancing interoperability, improving privacy and security, there are still problems such as diversity, lack of communication and sharing. To solve the security authentication problem in the IoT environment and the cross-chain communication problem in the blockchain platform, an Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) based cross-chain communication mechanism of Blockchain in IoT (IBE-BCIOT). This mechanism elects the proxy nodes of each blockchain in multiple blockchains, and passes theIDof the proxy node, as the public key, to the cross-chain notary. Then, the cross-chain notary calculates the corresponding private key through the IBE mechanism, and returns it to the proxy node in a secure way, to achieve safe and efficient communication between blockchains. Next, the IBE-BCIOT mechanism provides two cross-chain communication schemes: the direct cross-chain communication scheme among the proxy nodes, and the indirect cross-chain communication scheme through the notary. We also build a blockchain-based on the FICSO BCOS platform to implement the IBE-BCIOT mechanism and analyze its security. The performance of the proposed two cross-chain communication schemes was verified in experiments of the IoT environment. The experimental results show that IBE-BCIOT is an effective IoT cross-chain communication mechanism.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Zhejiang Lab (No. 2021KF0AB05), National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2017YFB1401300, 2017YFB1401302), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61702280, 61902194), Outstanding Youth of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation (No. BK20170100), Key R&D Program of Jiangsu (No. BE2017166), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170900), Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (No.19KJB520046), National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (No. BX20180146), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019 M661901), Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds (No. 2019 K024), Six Talent Peak Projects in Jiangsu Province, CCF-Tencent Open Fund WeBank Special Funding (No. CCF-WebankRAGR20190104), NUPT DingShan Sholar Project, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Projects of Jiangsu Province and NUPTSF (No. NY219132).

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  1. School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Sisi Shao, Fei Chen, Xiaoying Xiao, Weiheng Gu, Yicheng Lu, Shu Wang, Wen Tang, Shangdong Liu & Yimu Ji

  2. Institue of High Performance Computing and Bigdata, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210003, China

    Sisi Shao, Fei Chen, Xiaoying Xiao, Weiheng Gu, Yicheng Lu, Shu Wang, Wen Tang, Shangdong Liu & Yimu Ji

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    Shangdong Liu, Fei Wu & Yimu Ji

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    Shangdong Liu, Fei Wu & Yimu Ji

  5. Jiangsu HPC and Intelligent Processing Engineer Research Center, Nanjing, 210003, China

    Shangdong Liu, Fei Wu & Yimu Ji

  6. College of Automation, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Fei Wu

  7. Institute of Information Technology, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, 210003, China

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  8. School of Software and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia

    Jing He

  9. WeBank Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, 518038, China

    Kaixiang Zhang & Fen Mei

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Shao, S., Chen, F., Xiao, X. et al. IBE-BCIOT: an IBE based cross-chain communication mechanism of blockchain in IoT. World Wide Web 24, 1665–1690 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-021-00864-9

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