TY - JOUR
T1 - Chain-based big data access control infrastructure
AU - Sifah, Emmanuel Boateng
AU - Xia, Qi
AU - Agyekum, Kwame Opuni Boachie Obour
AU - Amofa, Sandro
AU - Gao, Jianbin
AU - Chen, Ruidong
AU - Xia, Hu
AU - Gee, James C.
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
AU - Guizani, Mohsen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Technological advancements have brought about the rise of data and other digital assets in our world today. The major problems with data today are its security and management, more importantly access control. These factors when not tackled effectively can lead to many compromises. The blockchain is an effective technology that ensures utmost security, trust, and maximum access control in big data systems. However, almost all the transactions on a blockchain network are stored in the platform. This process reduces the data storage, as the storage of all transactions sometimes creates unnecessary overheads. In this paper, an off-chain-based sovereign blockchain is proposed, where a virtual container is created for parties to transact in. At the end of a transaction, and satisfying each party, the container is destroyed but the results are stored on the sovereign blockchain network. This effectively decreases the amount of data that would have been stored on the network. The effectiveness of our system is compared with other schemes, and we could infer that our proposed system outperforms the already-existing ones.
AB - Technological advancements have brought about the rise of data and other digital assets in our world today. The major problems with data today are its security and management, more importantly access control. These factors when not tackled effectively can lead to many compromises. The blockchain is an effective technology that ensures utmost security, trust, and maximum access control in big data systems. However, almost all the transactions on a blockchain network are stored in the platform. This process reduces the data storage, as the storage of all transactions sometimes creates unnecessary overheads. In this paper, an off-chain-based sovereign blockchain is proposed, where a virtual container is created for parties to transact in. At the end of a transaction, and satisfying each party, the container is destroyed but the results are stored on the sovereign blockchain network. This effectively decreases the amount of data that would have been stored on the network. The effectiveness of our system is compared with other schemes, and we could infer that our proposed system outperforms the already-existing ones.
KW - Access control
KW - Big data
KW - Smart contracts
KW - Sovereign blockchain
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U2 - 10.1007/s11227-018-2308-7
DO - 10.1007/s11227-018-2308-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043679535
SN - 0920-8542
VL - 74
SP - 4945
EP - 4964
JO - Journal of Supercomputing
JF - Journal of Supercomputing
IS - 10
ER -