Abstract

Distributed energy trading system is a new business model of energy industry. Applying blockchain technology, energy supply contracts can be communicated directly between producers and consumers. However, blockchain is without any identity authentication and legitimate user identities are possibly forged if there is not any user identity authentication procedure in a trading system. In this paper, we design an authentication scheme for blockchain-based energy trading systems by using edge computing, including journalizing processes, registration, and identity authentication. In our scheme, each node has computing power, which can ensure the meter data can be processed locally or on the edge. In addition, the correctness and security analysis of the scheme are also given in this paper. The analysis shows that our scheme is unforgeability and can protect users’ privacy.

Details

Title
A novel authentication scheme based on edge computing for blockchain-based distributed energy trading system
Author
Ren, Yan 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhao Qiuxia 1 ; Guan Haipeng 1 ; Lin, Zhiqiang 2 

1  School of Mathematics and Information Technology, Yuncheng, China 
2  School of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangzhou, China 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Dec 2020
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
16871472
e-ISSN
16871499
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-020-01762-w
ProQuest document ID
2425423390
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.