We present models that utilize smart contracts and interledger mechanisms to provide decentralized authorization for constrained IoT devices. The models involve different tradeoffs in terms of cost, delay, complexity, and privacy, while exploiting key advantages of smart contracts and multiple blockchains that communicate with interledger mechanisms. These include immutably recording hashes of authorization information and policies in smart contracts, resilience through the execution of smart contract code on all blockchain nodes, and cryptographically linking transactions and IoT events recorded on different blockchains using hash and time-lock mechanisms. The proposed models are evaluated on the public Ethereum testnets Rinkeby and Ropsten, in terms of execution cost (gas), delay, and reduction of data that needs to be sent to the constrained IoT devices.
@article{arxiv.1905.01671,
title = {Interledger Smart Contracts for Decentralized Authorization to Constrained Things},
author = {Vasilios A. Siris and Dimitrios Dimopoulos and Nikos Fotiou and Spyros Voulgaris and George C. Polyzos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01671},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Accepted in 2nd Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (CryBlock 2019), in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, April 29 - May 2, 2019, Paris, France. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.01665