IRJET -Securing Data in Distributed System using Blockchain and AI

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 07 Issue: 03 | Mar 2020 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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Securing Data in Distributed System using Blockchain and AI
Abhijeet Sontakke1, Aditya Gaikwad1, Neha Ovhal1, Kalyani Nagawade1, Sarita Patil2
1Student, Dept. of Computer Engineering, G. H. Raisoni COE & Management Pune, Maharashtra, India
2Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, G. H. Raisoni COE & Management Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - In hospitals in developing countries when an
individual with symptoms corresponding to a deadly disease
such as hepatitis, influenza, cancer, etc. is encountered, the
staff can either suggest an expert in that particular field or if
the disease hasn’t been identified, the staff could recommend
the patient to a general physician. Most of the time, the
general physician will subject the patient through a series of
trial and error to identify and eliminate the improbable
disease. This process is a very painful ordeal experienced by
the patient as the doctors try to determine the cause of the
symptoms, one disease medication at a time. This problemhas
largely been overcome by developed countries by a Data
Vendor. This paper analyses all the past workonprovidingthe
security for the data in the network where especially data
brokers are being involved. The best way to provide this is,
introducing of block chains and Artificial intelligence. This
research article analyses past methodologies and evaluate
them to introduce a newer version of maintaining data
integrity in network.
Key Words: Block chain, Artificial intelligence,Intrusion
detection system, Network threats, Access control
mechanism.
1. INTRODUCTION
Data and its security have been paramount since the day
human beings started accumulating it. Since the earliest
stone age era, humans have evolved to process the
information around us byvarioussensoryinputsreceivedby
different sensory organs. This has led to the development of
various arts such as paintings, music, textures, etc. This
thirst for the unknown has made us go into space and
advance a significant amount in technology over the years.
All of this data created needs to be stored somewherewhere
it cannot be modified or destroyed, as these are valuable
lessons learned throughout the lifetime of an individual or a
group which can help the species to grow forward. This has
led to the humans collecting and storing a lot of data on
various different topics and was accelerated due to the
invention of the printing press at which allowed the
information to take the form of books that could retain it for
a very long time.
Another revolution in the storage, retrieval, and access of
data happened when the internet was conceived. Electronic
storage was already invented by then but the internetadded
another element to this as the internet allowed the various
computers and computing devices all over the world to
connect to each other and share information. This was
designed to facilitate the exchange of information between
the researchers over a large distanceto eliminatetheneedto
be physically present at the location to utilize the resources.
Due to its initial success, the internet was opened to the
public and various different services that used the internet
as the backbone started flourishing.
The internet started growing exponentially with a lot more
users and machines being connected every day. People
started using the platform more and more and this led to an
increased number of users interacting online. With social
media and educational portals, the internet grew to
astronomical sizes and the data being produced every day
grew to a massive size. With the growthofdata andtheusers
online, it created a nourishing environment for people to
learn and share valuable skills and information all over the
world. The major drawback of open access to everyone on
the internet was that there are also some individuals with
malicious intent that can ruin the experience of another
person purely for personal gain.
A lot of users on the internet have valuable and sensitive
personal information that is stored in the databases and
various organizations to have their internal data that is
confidentially stored electronically. This increases the
likelihood of an attacker gaining access to this information
that would lead to compromised security as well as a huge
loss for the organization. This is problematic as there are no
alternatives for storage and the convenience offered by the
database. Therefore, there is an utmost need to provide a
mechanism for controlling the access to the sensitive data
through which only the trusted employees and other
members of the organization can access the data, based on
their hierarchy.
This brings forth the blockchain paradigm, being proposed
by a group of scientists in the late 1990s the technique was
initially developed for use in a digital notary as it is an
excellent choice for tamper-proofing a document. The
paradigm was largely unused until it was utilized for the
creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency.Duetoitsstrong
tamper-proof and distributed nature, it is an apt choice for a
cryptocurrency. The blockchain is one of the most secure
applications and is capable of providingveryhighsecurityto
the data stored and can, therefore, be utilized in an
application to safeguard the data and provide an efficient as
well as an effective access control mechanism for the
sensitive data of an organization.

This paper dedicates section 2 for analysis of past work as
literature survey and section 3 concludes the paper with
feasible statement of the literature study.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
This section of the literature survey eventually revealssome
facts based on thoughtful analysis of many authors work as
follows.
S. Yu states that due to rapid pace of technology and the
introduction of Internet of Things or IoT, there has been a
swift increase in the number of intelligent devices being
connected to the internet. These devices are capable of
generating a large amount of data due to the fact that it is
connected and is interacting with the internet. A large
number of devices generate equally large amount of data
which cannot be processedefficiently.Therefore,theauthors
propose an effective technique based on blockchain thatcan
provide a low-cost alternative to create economic value for
the IoT data generated. A major drawback of this
methodology is that it has the potential to be misused by
uploading large amounts of malicious data.
R. Wang elaborates on the foundation of network security
construction which is the PKI or The Public Key
Infrastructure. The researchers also commented on the
reliability and the robust security offered by the blockchain
platform. Therefore, the authors amalgamated both the
methodologies to strengthen the Public Key Infrastructure
by a permissioned blockchain that converts the PKI into a
privacy-aware PKI. This is crucial as the implementationofa
permissioned blockchain also improves the efficiency of the
configuration and certificate application. The major
drawback is that this technique has been a very specialized
approach towards the blockchain paradigm.
C. Ehmke explains that the innovative paradigm of
Blockchain has been popular and has seen extensive usage
recently. The blockchain was utilized for financial
applications and that is how it gained immense popularity
and limelight. The blockchain was readily picked up by a
plethora of researchers and implemented in various
different fields, which has greatly helped in bringing
increased security to numerous applications. Due to the fact
that the blockchain paradigm requires a user of the
blockchain to download the wholechaintogainanoverview.
To ameliorate this effect, the authors have implemented a
scalable and lightweight blockchain protocol.
R. Wang introduces the video surveillance system as an
irreplaceable tool that can be used to efficiently manage and
survey big cities. When a video surveillance system is
installed it can easily transmit environment information
remotely, this is highly useful as the person does not need to
travel long distances and physically be present in the
location for the management. Due to a large-scaleincrease in
the monitoring standards with the inclusion of IoT and real-
time monitoring, it is susceptible to attacks. Therefore, the
authors developed a system for video surveillance based on
permissioned blockchains and Convolutional Neural
Networks for a seamless and secure system. A Major
drawback in the system is that large scale testing of the
System has not been performed and will be done in the
upcoming researches.
J. Lou states that there has been a lack of a key management
feature in the Named Data Networking, which is utilized to
name each and every object by the producer and also
digitally sign it. There are some disadvantages of the
conventional approach such as lack of trust between the
sites as well as the high chances of failure observed in the
centralized architecture if the main nodefails.Therefore, the
authors in this paper propose an efficient key management
scheme based on blockchainfortheNamedData Networking
paradigm. The blockchain increases the trust between the
sites as well as the decentralizedarchitectureishighlyuseful
in overcoming failure.Thedrawback oftheproposedscheme
is that it has not been evaluated extensively for its feasibility
in reducing the NDN cache pollution.
S. Wang explains that therehasbeena veryfastdevelopment
of cryptocurrency in recent years, which has led to detailed
scrutiny of the paradigm. This has uncovered a lot of
irregularities in the paradigm such as the Smart Contracts
that have been the cause of “The DOA Attack” which has
resulted in a huge loss. Therefore, the authors have
presented a comprehensive and systematic review of the
smart contracts in the blockchain paradigm. The authors
have presented a six-layer architecture for smart contracts
for increasing the security of the system. The authors have
not implemented a formal verification which can provide
confidence.
Y. Xu introduces the concept of decentralized storage that is
based on the blockchain framework.Theblockchainisoneof
the most innovative concepts that can be used to design a
highly secure decentralized framework. The authors have
proposed section blockchain protocol, which aims to
eliminate the storage problem that is encountered incertain
devices. The proposed methodology is highly resilient to
failure due to the decentralizedarchitecture,aswell as,ithas
the ability to withstand heavy loads and optimization
gracefully due to the implementation of the Blockchain
paradigm.
M. Marchesi in his keynote speech details the rapid
development and ongoing researches going on in the field of
blockchain. This is due to the increased attention to this
paradigm and increased demand in this sector. The author
indicates that this increased pressure on a nascent
framework has led to an increase in security lapses that are
evident in the various different incidents on the Ethereum
platform and the cryptocurrency exchanges.

That being said the speaker also highlighted the immense
opportunities that can be utilized by using the blockchain
paradigm such as the Blockchain tokens that can be used to
implement a reward and penalty-based scheme for
developers.
A. Maksutov elaborates on the paradigm of Blockchain and
its uses. The authors have proposed an innovative concept
for the detection and identification of various money
laundering schemes that use the blockchain framework for
their nefarious activities. The proposed methodology has
been used to deanonymizing the transactions and tracking
the coin join transactions, which allows the authors to
evaluate user participation. All of this information is used to
determine if the transactions are being fraudulentorused to
launder money.
F. Wessling states that the addition of blockchain to existing
platforms is problematic as it is different from building the
applications from scratch by incorporating the Blockchain
into the application. The authors determine the amount of
blockchain required for various different implementations,
this is done by analyzing the attributes of blockchainsuchas
anonymous, trustless and immutable, etc. The authors have
outlined the various different processes that utilize various
different elements of the blockchain technology that can be
implemented based on the specific application and use case
of the application.
J. Wang explains that most of the applications based on
crowd sensing gather a huge amount of data by using
pervasive smartphone users to provide the data.Butmost of
the time the users are not compensated enough for their
contribution to the system. Therefore, the authors have
presented an innovativeframework fora privacy-preserving
reward and penalty scheme that rewards the users for
contributing to the large data sensing paradigm using the
trustless and secure blockchain. The major drawback of this
paper has been that the authors have not discussed the
solutions for a possible collusion attack.
S. Pandey introduces the benefits of utilizing the Blockchain
paradigm for its security and decentralizedarchitecture.The
author states that there has been a jump in the number of
researches is going on in this field and there has been
increased interest in implementing the blockchain
framework to make existing systems resilientandsecure. To
this effect, the authors have formulated an ingenious and
practical simulation tool for planning,stability,anddesignof
the systems and applications as well as networks in a
blockchain environment. TheBlockSIMisanopensource and
comprehensive solution for all the Blockchain simulation
needs. The major drawback is that the authors have not
modeled the internet latency that would affect the accuracy
of the simulation.
3. SYSTEM OVERVIEW DIAGRAM
4. CONCLUSION
In this paper there have been some related works that have
utilized the Public health record database and techniques to
achieve various different approaches and to identify their
flaws and shortcomings. There have been various
methodologies that have been proposed by a plethora of
authors each offering a unique technique to Public Health
Record management. This has influenced our approach
drastically and helped and enabled us to propose a secure
and efficient Public Health Record management system that
uses the Blockchain Paradigm. The Blockchainisuseddueto
its inherent nature of being resilient to changes and
tampering, this is utilized to provide an effective Access
control Mechanism that can help restrict the leakage of
valuable sensitive data of the patients in the Public Health
Records. The methodology discussedwill beimplemented in
the upcoming researches.
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