PFI-RP: Building a Modular, Reliable, Scalable, and Secure Internet of Things Infrastructure

PFI-RP：构建模块化、可靠、可扩展且安全的物联网基础设施

• 批准号: 1919159
• 负责人: Phuong Nguyen
• 金额: $ 54.97万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919159&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; RP; Building; Modular; Reliable

The broader impact /commercial potential of this Partnership for Innovation- Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) project is to significantly improve the applicability of conventional blockchains to a wider array of use cases, thereby benefiting the United States economy and society. The project proposes to accomplish this objective by building and enhancing an intrusion-tolerant permissioned blockchain system and focusing this PFI program on a high-value application: modular, reliable, scalable, and secure Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure to improve the United States blockchain ecosystem. In addition, the team will develop new curriculum on blockchains, covering technical, ethical, and economic aspects of blockchains. The team will recruit undergraduate students and underrepresented minorities and reach out to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Meyerhoff Scholars program, University of Maryland. Baltimore County Center for Cybersecurity, and the National Science Foundation CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service program. The proposed project provides a novel permissioned blockchain-based IoT infrastructure that is expected to be more secure and reliable than existing cloud-based solutions and also more modular and scalable in terms of both servers and IoT devices supported. The intellectual merit of the new infrastructure includes a new permissioned blockchain protocol, a new IoT architecture supporting IoT devices at scale, and an easy-to-use mobile app. The permissioned blockchain protocol provides 1) modular trade-offs for not only the underlying consensus protocols but also confidentiality and access control, and 2) server scalability by designing new reliable distributed systems and cryptographic primitives. The new IoT architecture uses permissioned blockchain as servers and industry edge nodes as immediate brokers to support miscellaneous IoT devices at large scale. It uses fault-tolerant and cryptographic technologies to ensure edge nodes function correctly, without introducing additional points of failure or vulnerabilities. The app supports major IoT functions (sensors, mobile routers, cameras, IoT switches), provides real-time alerts, IoT data analysis, and anomaly detection for IoT devices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个创新研究伙伴关系（PFI-RP）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是显着提高传统区块链对更广泛用例的适用性，从而使美国经济和社会受益。该项目建议通过构建和增强入侵容忍许可区块链系统来实现这一目标，并将该PFI计划集中在高价值应用上：模块化，可靠，可扩展和安全的物联网（IoT）基础设施，以改善美国区块链生态系统。此外，该团队还将开发关于区块链的新课程，涵盖区块链的技术，道德和经济方面。该团队将招募本科生和代表性不足的少数民族，并接触到马里兰州，巴尔的摩县迈耶霍夫学者计划，马里兰州大学。巴尔的摩县网络安全中心和国家科学基金会网络军团：服务奖学金计划。拟议的项目提供了一种新的基于许可区块链的物联网基础设施，预计比现有的基于云的解决方案更安全可靠，并且在支持的服务器和物联网设备方面更具模块化和可扩展性。新基础设施的智力价值包括一个新的许可区块链协议，一个支持大规模物联网设备的新物联网架构，以及一个易于使用的移动的应用程序。许可区块链协议提供1）不仅为底层共识协议，而且还为机密性和访问控制提供模块化权衡，2）通过设计新的可靠分布式系统和加密原语，服务器可扩展性。新的物联网架构使用许可区块链作为服务器，行业边缘节点作为直接代理，以大规模支持各种物联网设备。它使用容错和加密技术来确保边缘节点正常工作，而不会引入额外的故障点或漏洞。该应用程序支持主要的物联网功能（传感器、移动的路由器、摄像头、物联网交换机），为物联网设备提供实时警报、物联网数据分析和异常检测。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Scalability Analysis of Blockchain on a Serverless Cloud

无服务器云上区块链的可扩展性分析

• DOI: 10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9005529
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data
• 作者: Kaplunovich, Alex;Joshi, Karuna P.;Yesha, Yelena
• 通讯作者: Yesha, Yelena

Intrusion-Tolerant and Confidentiality-Preserving Publish/Subscribe Messaging

• DOI: 10.1109/srds51746.2020.00039
• 发表时间: 2020-09
• 期刊: 2020 International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)
• 作者: Sisi Duan;Chao Liu;Xin Wang;Yusen Wu;Shuai Xu;Y. Yesha;Haibin Zhang

Apply Trust Computing and Privacy Preserving Smart Contracts to Manage, Share, and Analyze Multi-site Clinical Trial Data

应用信任计算和隐私保护智能合约来管理、共享和分析多站点临床试验数据

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16035-6_1
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Lecture notes in networks and systems
• 作者: Wu, Y.;Liu, C.;Sebald, L.;Nguyen, P.;Yesha, Y.
• 通讯作者: Yesha, Y.

Bring Trust to Edge: Secure and Decentralized IoT Framework with BFT and Permissioned Blockchain

• DOI: 10.1109/edge55608.2022.00025
• 发表时间: 2022-07
• 期刊: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE)
• 作者: Yusen Wu;Jinghui Liao;P. Nguyen;Weisong Shi;Y. Yesha