EAGER: SaTC: CORE: Small: Decentralized Data Assurance by Fair Proof of Work Consensus Federated Ledgers

EAGER：SaTC：核心：小型：通过公平工作证明共识联合账本实现去中心化数据保证

• 批准号: 2141468
• 负责人: Yu Chen
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2141468&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; SaTC; CORE; Small; Decentralized

Moving toward the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks envisions a pervasively-deployed and data-driven intelligent edge network integrating machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). One of the most attractive features of an intelligent B5G network is to share data among objects to collaboratively make comprehensive decisions and provide better services to people. A huge amount of data is produced and collected by Internet of Things (IoT) connected through the BSG edge networks. Breach of integrity, authentication, or privacy of data may cause disastrous consequences as the dependence of the economy and societies on the security of data also deepen. B5G-based IoT applications must meet highly dynamic and diverse requirements in terms of latency, reliability, data rate, and user-defined performance metrics. In addition, most of the data is locally significant, which is generated, collected, processed on-site or near-site for instant decision making. Transmitting these data to a remote cloud center not only causes unnecessary delays but also wastes precious resources. Instead, there is a need for decentralized, online solutions that can proactively adapt to the B5G edge network dynamics.This project will advance the research frontier of data security in B5G wireless network enabled intelligent edge computing paradigm. Aiming at paving the way to make blockchain an organic part of future intelligent networks, the investigator proposes a novel Federated Ledgers Architecture with fair proof-of-work (PoW) consensus enabled by Miner-twins in the Edge-fog-cloud paradigm (FLAME). Leveraging the Digital Twins (DT) and Microservices architecture, FLAME is a scale-able, decentralized data security solution for highly heterogeneous B5G IoT networks. This project consists of two technical components: (1) a Federated ledgers-based Decentralized Data Management (Fed-DDM) scheme for data assurance in hierarchical edge networks; and (2) a novel edge-fog-cloud Miner-Twins (MinT) architecture to enable a Fair-Mining-as-a-Service (FMaaS) consensus mechanism in heterogeneous blockchain networks at the edge.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.

迈向第五代 (5G) 及超 5G (B5G) 无线网络需要构建一个广泛部署且数据驱动的智能边缘网络，集成机器学习 (ML) 和人工智能 (AI)。智能B5G网络最吸引人的特点之一是物体之间共享数据，协同做出综合决策，为人们提供更好的服务。通过 BSG 边缘网络连接的物联网 (IoT) 产生和收集大量数据。随着经济和社会对数据安全的依赖程度加深，数据完整性、身份验证或隐私的破坏可能会造成灾难性后果。基于 B5G 的物联网应用必须在延迟、可靠性、数据速率和用户定义的性能指标方面满足高度动态和多样化的要求。此外，大多数数据具有本地意义，是在现场或近场生成、收集、处理的，用于即时决策。将这些数据传输到远程云中心不仅会造成不必要的延迟，还会浪费宝贵的资源。相反，需要能够主动适应 B5G 边缘网络动态的分散式在线解决方案。该项目将推进 B5G 无线网络支持的智能边缘计算范式中数据安全的研究前沿。为了使区块链成为未来智能网络的有机组成部分铺平道路，研究人员提出了一种新颖的联邦账本架构，该架构具有由边缘-雾-云范式（FLAME）中的矿工双胞胎启用的公平工作量证明（PoW）共识）。 FLAME 利用数字孪生 (DT) 和微服务架构，是一种可扩展、去中心化的数据安全解决方案，适用于高度异构的 B5G 物联网网络。该项目由两个技术组成部分组成：（1）基于联邦账本的去中心化数据管理（Fed-DDM）方案，用于分层边缘网络中的数据保证； (2) 一种新颖的边缘-雾-云 Miner-Twins (MinT) 架构，可在边缘的异构区块链网络中实现公平挖矿即服务 (FMaaS) 共识机制。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命和通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，该项目被认为值得支持。

项目成果

SAUSA: Securing Access, Usage, and Storage of 3D Point CloudData by a Blockchain-Based Authentication Network

• DOI: 10.3390/fi14120354
• 发表时间: 2022-11
• 期刊: Future Internet
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Ronghua Xu;Yu Chen;Genshe Chen;Erik Blasch

A Secure Dynamic Edge Resource Federation Architecture for Cross-Domain IoT Systems

跨域物联网系统的安全动态边缘资源联合架构

• DOI: 10.1109/icccn54977.2022.9868843
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: the 31st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2022
• 作者: Xu, Ronghua;Chen, Yu;Li, Xiaohua;Blasch, Erik
• 通讯作者: Blasch, Erik

LightMAN: A Lightweight Microchained Fabric for Assurance- and Resilience-Oriented Urban Air Mobility Networks

LightMAN：用于保障和弹性的城市空中交通网络的轻量级微链结构

• DOI: 10.3390/drones6120421
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Drones
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Xu, Ronghua;Wei, Sixiao;Chen, Yu;Chen, Genshe;Pham, Khanh
• 通讯作者: Pham, Khanh

A Digital Healthcare Service Architecture for Seniors Safety Monitoring in Metaverse

• DOI: 10.1109/metacom57706.2023.00027
• 发表时间: 2023-06
• 期刊: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom)
• 作者: Qian Qu;Ronghua Xu;Han Sun;Yu Chen;Sumantra Sarkar;Indrajit Ray