A secure and scalable storage system for aggregate data in IoT

Abstract

In recent years, with the impressive rapid development of integrated circuit and networking technologies, computers, devices and networking have become highly pervasive, incurring the introduction, development and deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT). The tiny identifying devices and wearables in IoT have transformed daily life in human society, as they generate, process and store the amount of data increasing at exponential rate all over the world. Due to high demand on data mining and analytics activities in IoT, secure and scalable mass storage systems are highly demanded for aggregate data in efficient processing. In this paper, we propose such a secure and scalable IoT storage system based on revised secret sharing scheme with support of scalability, flexibility and reliability at both data and system levels. Shamir’s secret sharing scheme is applied to achieve data security without complex key management associated with traditional cryptographic algorithms. The original secret sharing scheme is revised to utilize all coefficients in polynomials for larger data capacity at data level. Flexible data insert and delete operations are supported. Moreover, a distributed IoT storage infrastructure is deployed to provide scalability and reliability at system level. Multiple IoT storage servers are aggregated for large storage capacity whereas individual servers can join and leave freely for flexibility at system level. Experimental results have demonstrated the feasibility and benefits of the proposed system as well as tangible performance gains.