Multi-chain blockchain based secure data-sharing framework for industrial IoTs smart devices in petroleum industry

Abstract

Industry 4.0 efficiently enhances the manufacturing process in many aspects such as increasing system performance, productivity, cost reduction, and building large-scale systems with enable autonomous operation. Numerous heterogeneous devices and sensors are connecting to the internet network through the utilization of revolutionary techniques that transfer the manufacturing paradigm to intelligent processes. The traditional schemes adopted centralized architectures and complex encryption algorithms that suffer from several cyber-security threats and latency making them unsuitable for resource-constrained IoTs devices. In our work, we proposed a decentralized, low-power consumption, fast, scalable, secure, privacy-preserving, and trusting architecture-based private blockchain network/smart contract and interplanetary file system for the petroleum industry in Iraq. Our scheme improves blockchain performance by adopting the incremental aggregator subsector commitment instated of Merkle tree and a multi-chain proof of rapid authentication as consensus algorithms, which are specially designed for industrial IoTs applications. It provides a high level of security authentication and privacy preservation, P2P communication, remote access, immutability, traceability, and information backtracking. In addition to addressing the blockchain storage limitation and eliminating third-party dependencies by adopting an interplanetary file system (IPFS). Also provides an efficient data encryption mechanism at the perceptual layer by adopting a lightweight encryption algorithm with internet friendly ARM Cortex-M33 Microcontroller as clear in the experimental results. Moreover, our architecture succeeds in merging blockchain technology, IoTs, and an IPFS with the petroleum industry as an industrial application area, and provides an efficient framework that resists common cyber-security attacks by achieving data integrity, availability, and confidentiality.