Presentation 2019-03-05
Distributed and Fine-Grained Attribute-Based Access Control for the Internet of Things
Mirei Yutaka, Yuanyu Zhang, Masahiro Sasabe, Shoji Kasahara,
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Abstract(in English) This paper investigates the critical access control issue of the Internet of Things (IoT) to prevent unauthorized access to IoT resources, e.g., data and devices. More specifically, this paper considers the smart contract functionality of the emerging Ethereum blockchain to propose a novel Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) framework for distributed and fine-grained IoT access control. The framework consists of one Policy Management Contract (PMC), one Subject Attribute Management Contract (SAMC), one Object Attribute Management Contract (OAMC) and one Access Control Contract (ACC). The PMC, SAMC and OAMC are responsible for storing and managing access control policies (i.e., statements claiming who can access what under what conditions), attributes of subjects (i.e., entities accessing resources) and attributes of objects (i.e., resources being accessed), respectively. The ACC retrieves the corresponding policy, subject attributes and object attributes from the PMC, SAMC and OAMC respectively to perform the ABAC, when receiving access requests from a subject. To show the feasibility of the proposed framework, we construct a local private Ethereum blockchain system and implement the four smart contracts on the blockchain.
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Keyword(in English) Ethereum Blockchain / Internet of Things (IoT) / Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
Paper # NS2018-251
Date of Issue 2019-02-25 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee IN / NS
Conference Date 2019/3/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Okinawa Convention Center
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Topics (in English) General
Chair Takuji Kishida(NTT-AT) / Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT)
Vice Chair Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Akihiro Nakao(Univ. of Tokyo)
Secretary Kenji Ishida(KDDI Research) / Akihiro Nakao(KDDI Research)
Assistant / Kenichi Kashibuchi(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Information Networks / Technical Committee on Network Systems
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Distributed and Fine-Grained Attribute-Based Access Control for the Internet of Things
Sub Title (in English) An Ethereum Blockchain-Based Framework
Keyword(1) Ethereum Blockchain
Keyword(2) Internet of Things (IoT)
Keyword(3) Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
1st Author's Name Mirei Yutaka
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
2nd Author's Name Yuanyu Zhang
2nd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
3rd Author's Name Masahiro Sasabe
3rd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
4th Author's Name Shoji Kasahara
4th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
Date 2019-03-05
Paper # NS2018-251
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) NS-465
Page pp.pp.343-348(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-02-25 (NS)