RRV-BC: Random Reputation Voting Mechanism and Blockchain Assisted Access Authentication for Industrial Internet of Things

Abstract

Industry 4.0 integrates industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. The advent of the 5G era has undoubtedly provided a new impetus for the development of many Industry 4.0 applications, but it also presents some key security hurdles. The network scale is becoming larger and larger, the network environment is becoming increasingly complex, and security risks are prominent. Frequent issues, such as malicious attacks, privacy information disclosure, and data transmission security. In order to improve the reliability and security of cyberspace, this article proposes a blockchain-based hierarchical IIoT security solution mechanism. In addition, we propose a random reputation voting mechanism and blockchain (RRV-BC) scheme based on verifiable random function and reputation voting to reduce the communication cost during blockchain consensus communication. Meanwhile, the node credit scoring mechanism is introduced to dynamically evaluate the node credit. The simulation results show that the scheme improves the reliability of data communication and the fault tolerance of consensus mechanism by an average of 5% compared with the traditional practical byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) protocol method.