EduChain: CIA-Compliant Blockchain for Intelligent Cyber Defense of Microservices in Education Industry 4.0

Massive data handling requirement in education Industry 4.0 has attracted interests in the research of microservice architectures due to their scalability, resilience, and elasticity characteristics. This development has been challenged by extensive data exchange required by a set of independent mic...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial informatics 2022-03, Vol.18 (3), p.1930-1938
Main Authors: Rahman, Md Arafatur, Abuludin, Mohd Saharudin, Yuan, Ling Xi, Islam, Md. Shohidul, Asyhari, A. Taufiq
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Availability
Blockchain
Cloud computing
Confidentiality
Cryptography
Data exchange
Data handling
Education
Industries
Industry 4.0
Integrity
microservices
Modulus of elasticity
Privacy
Proposals
Public key
Scalability
Security
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Summary:Massive data handling requirement in education Industry 4.0 has attracted interests in the research of microservice architectures due to their scalability, resilience, and elasticity characteristics. This development has been challenged by extensive data exchange required by a set of independent microservices to build a complete application, which could result in increasing risks and exposure to the security and privacy breaches of the data. It is imperative to see that educational data are highly sensitive, critical for ascertaining educational attainment and facilitating credentials for qualification verifications. This article puts forward a new proposal of devising a security and privacy-preserving design mechanism of data transactions in educational microservices leveraging the blockchain technology. The design comprises three phases, namely the blockchain framework, data sending-receiving, and confidentiality-integrity-availability over a secured platform with each phase having detailed mechanisms for algorithm implementation. The proposal is shown to exhibit favorable performance in terms of time cost of publishing, throughput, and latency, and shown to have high survey acceptance in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with approximately 10% improvement from prior blockchain adoption.
ISSN:1551-3203
1941-0050
DOI:10.1109/TII.2021.3093475