TY - JOUR
T1 - BFIM
T2 - Performance Measurement of a Blockchain Based Hierarchical Tree Layered Fog-IoT Microservice Architecture
AU - Whaiduzzaman, Md
AU - Mahi, Md Julkar Nayeen
AU - Barros, Alistair
AU - Khalil, Md Ibrahim
AU - Fidge, Colin
AU - Buyya, Rajkumar
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘‘Re-Engineering Enterprise Systems for Microservices in the Cloud’’ under Grant DP190100314.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Fog computing complements cloud computing by removing several limitations, such as delays and network bandwidth. It emerged to support Internet of Things (IoT) applications wherein its computations and tasks are carried out at the network's edge. Heterogeneous IoT devices interact with different users throughout a network. However, data security is a crucial concern for IoT, fog and cloud network ecosystems. Since the number of anonymous users increases and new identity disclosures occur within the IoTs, it is becoming challenging to grow mesh networks to deliver end to end communications, as the extended IoT networks resemble a mesh architecture. To reinforce data security over IoTs, we deploy a microservice-based blockchain mechanism for fogs, which works as a decentralized client-server network medium (i.e., secured end device-based communication). We implement a blockchain equipped security scheme to be used with a fog-IoT hierarchical tree-based overlay mesh architecture to address and develop the network performance issues. In this study, we consider encryption and decryption delays from IoT and fog-integrated parts to monitor data records and compare them through the developed security scheme. The blocks of a blockchain offer the desired execution results mainly in terms of the algorithmic efficiency, which correlates with the existing algorithms, namely the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA), and the Data Encryption Standard (DES). Our 'BFIM' scheme has an enhanced task scheduling capacity and a more efficient throughput than the AES, DES, RSA resource deliverables (i.e., tasks). Our comprehensive performance evaluation implies that the Blockchain-based Fog IoT Microservice (i.e., BFIM) architecture provides a task delivery efficiency of 78.79% (i.e., task deliverable) and a service delivery efficiency of 83.24% (i.e., task scheduling). The 'BFIM' also has an overall process delivery efficiency of 75% (i.e., time delay, throughput) in the fog layer, rather than a central cloud layer running the AES, DES, and RSA algorithms.
AB - Fog computing complements cloud computing by removing several limitations, such as delays and network bandwidth. It emerged to support Internet of Things (IoT) applications wherein its computations and tasks are carried out at the network's edge. Heterogeneous IoT devices interact with different users throughout a network. However, data security is a crucial concern for IoT, fog and cloud network ecosystems. Since the number of anonymous users increases and new identity disclosures occur within the IoTs, it is becoming challenging to grow mesh networks to deliver end to end communications, as the extended IoT networks resemble a mesh architecture. To reinforce data security over IoTs, we deploy a microservice-based blockchain mechanism for fogs, which works as a decentralized client-server network medium (i.e., secured end device-based communication). We implement a blockchain equipped security scheme to be used with a fog-IoT hierarchical tree-based overlay mesh architecture to address and develop the network performance issues. In this study, we consider encryption and decryption delays from IoT and fog-integrated parts to monitor data records and compare them through the developed security scheme. The blocks of a blockchain offer the desired execution results mainly in terms of the algorithmic efficiency, which correlates with the existing algorithms, namely the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA), and the Data Encryption Standard (DES). Our 'BFIM' scheme has an enhanced task scheduling capacity and a more efficient throughput than the AES, DES, RSA resource deliverables (i.e., tasks). Our comprehensive performance evaluation implies that the Blockchain-based Fog IoT Microservice (i.e., BFIM) architecture provides a task delivery efficiency of 78.79% (i.e., task deliverable) and a service delivery efficiency of 83.24% (i.e., task scheduling). The 'BFIM' also has an overall process delivery efficiency of 75% (i.e., time delay, throughput) in the fog layer, rather than a central cloud layer running the AES, DES, and RSA algorithms.
KW - Blockchain service
KW - fog service delivery
KW - fog-IoT ecosystem
KW - hierarchical tree architecture
KW - performance efficiency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112648003&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3100072
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3100072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85112648003
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 9
SP - 106655
EP - 106674
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
M1 - 9496650
ER -