A Review of CP-ABE Access Control Schemes In Fog Computing

Subject Areas : Computer Engineering and IT

Mohammad Ali Alizadeh ¹ , Somayeh Jafarali Jassbi ² , Ahmad khademzadeh ³

1 - Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - ICT Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2024-08-12 Accepted : 2024-11-26 Published : 2024-12-27

Keywords: IoT, Fog computing, Access control, CP-ABE, RNS,

Abstract :

Fog computing with cloud computing is useful for real-time processing in the IoT ecosystem. Fog computing can be used to outsource and lighten the computations of the end nodes because it is closer to the end nodes and has higher processing and communication power. On the other hand, the privacy and security of users of IOT are significant.This can be achieved by attribute encryption fine-grained access control schemes like ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE). Along with the improvements of the mentioned schemes, there are challenges such as attribute revocation and user revocation. In this article, we intend to review the new schemes based on CP-ABE, examine their extensive capabilities, and find an approach to the challenges each of them tried to solve. Also, clarify the architectural details of the mentioned designs implemented in the fog computing framework, such as the access policy model, attribute authority model, and underlying operations. Finally, we examine the weak points of the schemes to predict future development trends and present open issues.

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