Proof-of-PUF Enabled Blockchain: Concurrent Data and Device Security for Internet-of-Energy
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Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK
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Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK
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Sensors 2021, 21(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21010028
Received: 9 November 2020
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Revised: 16 December 2020
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Accepted: 17 December 2020
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Published: 23 December 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Blockchain Technologies towards Identity Management and Its Applications in ICT and IoT)
A detailed review on the technological aspects of Blockchain and Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) is presented in this article. It stipulates an emerging concept of Blockchain that integrates hardware security primitives via PUFs to solve bandwidth, integration, scalability, latency, and energy requirements for the Internet-of-Energy (IoE) systems. This hybrid approach, hereinafter termed as PUFChain, provides device and data provenance which records data origins, history of data generation and processing, and clone-proof device identification and authentication, thus possible to track the sources and reasons of any cyber attack. In addition to this, we review the key areas of design, development, and implementation, which will give us the insight on seamless integration with legacy IoE systems, reliability, cyber resilience, and future research challenges.
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Keywords:
internet-of-energy; smart grid; blockchain; artificial intelligence; cybersecurity; cyber physical systems; data processing; encryption; cloud computing; communication systems
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Asif, R.; Ghanem, K.; Irvine, J. Proof-of-PUF Enabled Blockchain: Concurrent Data and Device Security for Internet-of-Energy. Sensors 2021, 21, 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21010028
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Asif R, Ghanem K, Irvine J. Proof-of-PUF Enabled Blockchain: Concurrent Data and Device Security for Internet-of-Energy. Sensors. 2021; 21(1):28. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21010028
Chicago/Turabian StyleAsif, Rameez, Kinan Ghanem, and James Irvine. 2021. "Proof-of-PUF Enabled Blockchain: Concurrent Data and Device Security for Internet-of-Energy" Sensors 21, no. 1: 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21010028
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