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Data Secure Storage Mechanism for IIoT Based on Blockchain

Jin Wang^1,2, Guoshu Huang¹, R. Simon Sherratt³, Ding Huang⁴, Jia Ni^4,*

1 School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, 350118, China
2 School of Computer & Communication Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha, 410004, China
3 School of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK
4 School of Computer, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

* Corresponding Author: Jia Ni. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2024, 78(3), 4029-4048. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2024.047468

Received 06 November 2023; Accepted 01 February 2024; Issue published 26 March 2024

Abstract

With the development of Industry 4.0 and big data technology, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is hampered by inherent issues such as privacy, security, and fault tolerance, which pose certain challenges to the rapid development of IIoT. Blockchain technology has immutability, decentralization, and autonomy, which can greatly improve the inherent defects of the IIoT. In the traditional blockchain, data is stored in a Merkle tree. As data continues to grow, the scale of proofs used to validate it grows, threatening the efficiency, security, and reliability of blockchain-based IIoT. Accordingly, this paper first analyzes the inefficiency of the traditional blockchain structure in verifying the integrity and correctness of data. To solve this problem, a new Vector Commitment (VC) structure, Partition Vector Commitment (PVC), is proposed by improving the traditional VC structure. Secondly, this paper uses PVC instead of the Merkle tree to store big data generated by IIoT. PVC can improve the efficiency of traditional VC in the process of commitment and opening. Finally, this paper uses PVC to build a blockchain-based IIoT data security storage mechanism and carries out a comparative analysis of experiments. This mechanism can greatly reduce communication loss and maximize the rational use of storage space, which is of great significance for maintaining the security and stability of blockchain-based IIoT.

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