I-Corps: Blockchain-Based Web of Trust for Edge Computing

I-Corps：基于区块链的边缘计算信任网络

• 批准号: 1935250
• 负责人: Rhonda Shrader
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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: 2019-06-15 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Blockchain; Based; Web; Trust

The broader impact of this I-Corps project is in enabling more comprehensive, secure, private, and real-time analysis of internet of things (IoT) data generated by connected devices such as mobile phones and connected vehicles. Vast amounts of IoT data are generated each year. Even the most useful IoT data is often transferred through and stored in systems that can have privacy and security problems. This I-Corps project has the potential to refactor how existing IoT workloads work in a secure fashion, enabling the processing of this data to be secured and anonymized directly in the networks in which they are generated. From a commercial standpoint, this technology can refactor how existing corporations deploy analytics to utilize IoT data. Much like cloud infrastructure refactored how large digital workloads were handled into specialized computing centers, this technology can refactor deployment of large-scale, real-time data analytics onto the networks of devices generating them. Ultimately, this means corporations will have access to data processing capabilities that can scale to how fast they generate data, and consumers will benefit from privacy and data security guarantees.This I-Corps project is based on two novel technological developments surrounding blockchain and decentralized systems. The first is a context aware reputation system for digital devices that acts as a peer-to-peer credit system for machines. The second is a way of routing and storing data such that it is impossible to recover any information from a single compromised machine. These two innovations are inspired by the original idea of decentralization as taken from the internet, with the reputation system motivated by Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and the routing/storage mechanism inspired by Named Data Networking and polynomial-based cryptographic techniques. This inspiration is applied and mixed with current understanding of blockchain systems to create a more secure yet still highly scalable peer to peer network. Ultimately, these two systems working together can vastly scale data storage transactions per data shard as contrasted with existing blockchain systems.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.

此i-Corps项目的更广泛影响是实现了对由手机和联网车辆等互联设备生成的物联网(IoT)数据进行更全面、安全、隐私和实时的分析。每年都会产生海量的物联网数据。即使是最有用的物联网数据，通常也会通过可能存在隐私和安全问题的系统进行传输和存储。此i-Corps项目有可能重构现有物联网工作负载以安全方式工作的方式，使这些数据的处理能够直接在生成这些数据的网络中得到保护和匿名。从商业角度来看，这项技术可以重构现有公司部署分析以利用物联网数据的方式。就像云基础设施重构如何将大量数字工作负载处理到专门的计算中心一样，这项技术可以将大规模实时数据分析的部署重构到生成这些分析的设备网络上。最终，这意味着企业将能够获得数据处理能力，这些能力可以扩展到他们生成数据的速度，消费者将从隐私和数据安全保证中受益。这个i-Corps项目基于区块链和去中心化系统的两项新技术发展。第一个是数字设备的情景感知声誉系统，它充当机器的点对点信用系统。第二种是一种路由和存储数据的方法，这样就不可能从一台受攻击的机器上恢复任何信息。这两项创新的灵感来自于互联网的原始去中心化思想，声誉系统的灵感来自于PGP(Pretty Good Privacy)，而路由/存储机制的灵感来自命名数据网络和基于多项式的密码技术。这种灵感被应用并与目前对区块链系统的理解混合在一起，以创建一个更安全但仍具有高度可扩展性的对等网络。最终，与现有的区块链系统相比，这两个系统的合作可以极大地扩展每个数据碎片的数据存储事务。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。