TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficient and Secure Data Sharing for 5G Flying Drones
T2 - A Blockchain-Enabled Approach
AU - Feng, Chaosheng
AU - Yu, Keping
AU - Bashir, Ali Kashif
AU - Al-Otaibi, Yasser D.
AU - Lu, Yang
AU - Chen, Shengbo
AU - Zhang, Di
N1 - Funding Information:
AcknoWledgments This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61373163, and in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) under Grant JP18K18044.
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PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - The drone's open and untrusted environment may create problems for authentication and data sharing. To address this issue, we propose a blockchain-enabled efficient and secure data sharing model for 5G flying drones. In this model, blockchain and attribute-based encryption (ABE) are applied to ensure the security of instruction issues and data sharing. The authentication mechanism in the model employs a smart contract for authentication and access control, public key cryptography for providing accounts and ensuring accounts' security, and a distributed ledger for security audit. In addition, to speed up out-sourced computations and reduce electricity consumption, an ABE model with parallel outsourced computation (ABEM-POC) is constructed, and a generic parallel computation method for ABE is proposed. The analysis of the experimental results shows that parallel computation significantly improves the speed of outsourced encryption and decryption compared to serial computation.
AB - The drone's open and untrusted environment may create problems for authentication and data sharing. To address this issue, we propose a blockchain-enabled efficient and secure data sharing model for 5G flying drones. In this model, blockchain and attribute-based encryption (ABE) are applied to ensure the security of instruction issues and data sharing. The authentication mechanism in the model employs a smart contract for authentication and access control, public key cryptography for providing accounts and ensuring accounts' security, and a distributed ledger for security audit. In addition, to speed up out-sourced computations and reduce electricity consumption, an ABE model with parallel outsourced computation (ABEM-POC) is constructed, and a generic parallel computation method for ABE is proposed. The analysis of the experimental results shows that parallel computation significantly improves the speed of outsourced encryption and decryption compared to serial computation.
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U2 - 10.1109/MNET.011.2000223
DO - 10.1109/MNET.011.2000223
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100412110
SN - 0890-8044
VL - 35
SP - 130
EP - 137
JO - IEEE Network
JF - IEEE Network
IS - 1
M1 - 9354926
ER -