Blockchain- and IPFS-Based Data Distribution for the Internet of Things

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2020-09
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Krejci, Simon  
Sigwart, Marten  
Schulte, Stefan  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/11853
First published in
Lecture notes in computer science  
Number in series
12054 LNCS
Start Page
177
End Page
191
Citation
European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2020)
Contribution to Conference
European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2020  
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-44769-4_14
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85085734717
Distributing data in a tamper-proof and traceable way is a necessity in many Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. Blockchain technologies are frequently named as an approach to provide such functionality. Despite this, there is a lack of concrete solutions which integrate the IoT with the blockchain for data distribution purposes. Within this paper, we present a middleware which connects to IoT devices, and uses a blockchain to distribute IoT data with guaranteed integrity. Furthermore, the middleware also offers that data is distributed in real-time via a second channel. We implement our solution using the Ethereum blockchain and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
Subjects
Blockchain
Data distribution
Internet of Things
IPFS