I-Corps: Blockchain-Based Web of Trust for Edge Computing

I-Corps：基于区块链的边缘计算信任网络

• 批准号: 1935250
• 负责人: Rhonda Shrader
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-15 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Blockchain; Based; Web; Trust

The broader impact of this I-Corps project is in enabling more comprehensive, secure, private, and real-time analysis of internet of things (IoT) data generated by connected devices such as mobile phones and connected vehicles. Vast amounts of IoT data are generated each year. Even the most useful IoT data is often transferred through and stored in systems that can have privacy and security problems. This I-Corps project has the potential to refactor how existing IoT workloads work in a secure fashion, enabling the processing of this data to be secured and anonymized directly in the networks in which they are generated. From a commercial standpoint, this technology can refactor how existing corporations deploy analytics to utilize IoT data. Much like cloud infrastructure refactored how large digital workloads were handled into specialized computing centers, this technology can refactor deployment of large-scale, real-time data analytics onto the networks of devices generating them. Ultimately, this means corporations will have access to data processing capabilities that can scale to how fast they generate data, and consumers will benefit from privacy and data security guarantees.This I-Corps project is based on two novel technological developments surrounding blockchain and decentralized systems. The first is a context aware reputation system for digital devices that acts as a peer-to-peer credit system for machines. The second is a way of routing and storing data such that it is impossible to recover any information from a single compromised machine. These two innovations are inspired by the original idea of decentralization as taken from the internet, with the reputation system motivated by Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and the routing/storage mechanism inspired by Named Data Networking and polynomial-based cryptographic techniques. This inspiration is applied and mixed with current understanding of blockchain systems to create a more secure yet still highly scalable peer to peer network. Ultimately, these two systems working together can vastly scale data storage transactions per data shard as contrasted with existing blockchain systems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛影响在于，可以对由移动电话和连接的车辆等连接设备产生的物联网（IoT）数据进行更全面，安全，私人和实时分析。每年都会生成大量的物联网数据。 甚至最有用的物联网数据也经常通过可能存在隐私和安全问题的系统传输并存储。这个I-Corps项目有可能重构现有的IoT工作负载如何以安全的方式工作，从而使该数据的处理能够直接在其生成的网络中直接确保和匿名化。从商业角度来看，该技术可以重构现有公司如何部署分析来利用IoT数据。就像云基础架构重新分配到专业计算中心中的大型数字工作负载一样，该技术可以将大规模的实时数据分析重构在生成它们的设备网络上。最终，这意味着公司将可以访问数据处理能力，以扩展到它们生成数据的速度，并且消费者将从隐私和数据安全保证中受益。该I-Corps项目基于围绕区块链和分散系统的两个新型技术发展。第一个是用于数字设备的上下文意识声誉系统，该系统充当机器的点对点信用系统。第二个是路由和存储数据的方法，因此无法从单个折衷的机器中恢复任何信息。这两项创新的灵感来自于从互联网上采集的原始思想，其声誉系统是由相当良好的隐私（PGP）和受命名数据网络和基于多项式的加密技术启发的路由/存储机制启发的。应用此灵感并与当前对区块链系统的了解，以创建一个更安全但仍然可扩展的对等网络。最终，与现有区块链系统形成鲜明对比的是，这两个系统可以大大扩展每个数据碎片的数据存储交易。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。