Blockchain-Empowered Secure Internet -of- Battlefield Things (IoBT) Architecture

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is emerging to advance the modern defense and warfare applications because the battlefield things, such as combat equipment, warfighters, and vehicles, can sense and disseminate information from the battlefield to enable real-time decision making on military opera...

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Published inMILCOM 2018 - 2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) pp. 593 - 598
Main Authors Tosh, Deepak K., Shetty, Sachin, Foytik, Peter, Njilla, Laurent, Kamhoua, Charles A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2018
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Summary:Internet of Things (IoT) technology is emerging to advance the modern defense and warfare applications because the battlefield things, such as combat equipment, warfighters, and vehicles, can sense and disseminate information from the battlefield to enable real-time decision making on military operations and enhance autonomy in the battlefield. Since this Internet-of-Battlefield Things (IoBT) environment is highly heterogeneous in terms of devices, network standards, platforms, connectivity, and so on, it introduces trust, security, and privacy challenges when battlefield entities exchange information with each other. To address these issues, we propose a Blockchain-empowered auditable platform for IoBT and describe its architectural components, such as battlefield-sensing layer, network layer, and consensus and service layer, in depth. In addition to the proposed layered architecture, this paper also presents several open research challenges involved in each layer to realize the Blockchain-enabled IoBT platform.
ISSN:2155-7586
DOI:10.1109/MILCOM.2018.8599758