CRII: SaTC: Towards Trustworthy and Accountable IoT Data Marketplaces

CRII：SaTC：迈向值得信赖和负责任的物联网数据市场

• 批准号: 2231085
• 负责人: Ahmad Alsharif
• 金额: $ 16.96万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231085&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRII; SaTC; Towards; Trustworthy; Accountable

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The huge amounts of Internet of Things (IoT) data generated daily by billions of distributed IoT devices create unprecedented opportunities for several fields and industries. IoT data marketplaces are the key platforms to make IoT data flow from where it is generated to where it is needed. With IoT data marketplaces, data consumers can acquire historical or real-time IoT data streams to enhance data analytics and offer innovative services, whereas data providers can monetize their IoT data. However, the lack of mutual trust between data providers and consumers with the absence of a central marketplace operator trusted by all entities is a significant impediment to realizing a trustworthy marketplace. This project investigates the foundations and implementation of a trustworthy and accountable decentralized data marketplace to achieve secure IoT data sharing and trading with enforced and flexible access control and post-trading accountability. The project aligns with the NSF's Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Ideas vision and supports emerging opportunities for U.S. leadership in Big Ideas that serve the Nation's future.The project builds on the general properties of the present-day technology of trust (smart-contracts over blockchain) and utilizes applied cryptography to develop the necessary extensions to enable (i) flexible and enforced access control; (ii) secure and verifiable fair-exchange in trustless environments; (iii) verifiable automatic matching of data providers' bids to data consumers’ requests; and (iv) post-trading accountability against misbehaving data providers and consumers. Key design challenges are supporting these goals and achieving scalability, performance, and confidentiality and privacy of sensitive parts of data transactions. The project provides training opportunities for the next-generation of cybersecurity specialists. It also has the potential to unlock new opportunities in various industries by facilitating the secure and trustworthy exchange of IoT data.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来源于《2021 年美国救援计划法案》（公法 117-2）。数十亿分布式物联网设备每天产生的海量物联网 (IoT) 数据为多个领域创造了前所未有的机遇物联网数据市场是使物联网数据从生成地流向需要的地方的关键平台，数据消费者可以获取历史或实时物联网数据流，以增强数据分析并提供创新。服务，而数据提供商然而，由于缺乏受所有实体信任的中央市场运营商，数据提供商和消费者之间缺乏相互信任，这是实现可信赖市场的重大障碍。和负责任的去中心化数据市场，通过强制、灵活的访问控制和交易后问责来实现安全的物联网数据共享和交易。该项目符合 NSF 的“利用数据革命大创意”愿景，并支持美国领导力的新兴机会。该项目建立在当今信任技术（基于区块链的智能合约）的一般特性之上，并利用应用密码学来开发必要的扩展，以实现（i）灵活且强制的访问控制(ii) 在不信任的环境中进行安全且可验证的公平交换；(iii) 可验证的数据提供者的出价与数据消费者的请求的自动匹配；以及 (iv) 针对不当数据提供者和消费者的交易后问责。正在支持这些目标，并实现数据交易敏感部分的可扩展性、性能以及机密性和隐私性。该项目还为下一代网络安全专家提供了培训机会。安全可靠的物联网数据交换。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。