Blockchain-Enabled Secure Energy Trading With Verifiable Fairness in Industrial Internet of Things

Energy trading in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a fundamental approach to realize Industry 4.0, plays a vital role in satisfying energy demands and optimizing system efficiency. Existing research works utilize a utility company to distribute energy to energy nodes with the help of energy bro...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial informatics 2020-10, Vol.16 (10), p.6564-6574
Main Authors: Li, Meng, Hu, Donghui, Lal, Chhagan, Conti, Mauro, Zhang, Zijian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control
Authentication
Blockchain
Consortia
Cryptography
Energy
Energy distribution
energy trading
Industrial applications
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Industries
Industry 4.0
Informatics
Internet of Things
Power marketers
Privacy
Security
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Summary:Energy trading in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a fundamental approach to realize Industry 4.0, plays a vital role in satisfying energy demands and optimizing system efficiency. Existing research works utilize a utility company to distribute energy to energy nodes with the help of energy brokers. Afterwards, they apply blockchain to provide transparency, immutability, and auditability of peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading. However, their schemes are constructed on a weak security model and do not consider the cheating attack initiated by energy sellers. Such an attack refers to an energy seller refusing to transfer the negotiated energy to an energy purchaser who already paid money. In this article, we propose \mathsf{FeneChain}, a blockchain-based energy trading scheme to supervise and manage the energy trading process toward building a secure energy trading system and improving energy quality for Industry 4.0. Specifically, we leverage anonymous authentication to protect user privacy, and we design a timed-commitments-based mechanism to guarantee the verifiable fairness during energy trading. Moreover, we utilize fine-grained access control for energy trading services. We also build a consortium blockchain among energy brokers to verify and record energy trading transactions. Finally, we formally analyze the security and privacy of \mathsf{FeneChain} and evaluate its performance (i.e., computational costs and communication overhead) by implementing a prototype via a local Ethereum test network and Raspberry Pi.
ISSN:1551-3203
1941-0050
DOI:10.1109/TII.2020.2974537