Proof-of-PUF enabled blockchain: concurrent data and device security for internet-of-energy

Rameez Asif, Kinan Ghanem, James Irvine

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number28
Pages (from-to)1-32
Number of pages32
JournalSensors
Volume21
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Dec 2020

Keywords

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Blockchain
  • Cloud computing
  • Communication systems
  • Cyber physical systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data processing
  • Encryption
  • Internet-of-energy
  • Smart grid

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