TY - GEN
T1 - Binding the Physical and Cyber Worlds
AU - Xu, Lei
AU - Chen, Lin
AU - Gao, Zhimin
AU - Chang, Yanling
AU - Iakovou, Eleftherios
AU - Shi, Weidong
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Grant Award Number 2015-ST-061-BSH001. This grant is awarded to the Borders, Trade, and Immigration (BTI) Institute: A DHS Center of Excellence led by the University of Houston, and includes support for the project Secure and Transparent Cargo Supply Chain: Enabling Chain-of-custody with Economical and Privacy Respecting Biometrics, and Blockchain Technology awarded to the University of Houston
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/12
Y1 - 2018/12/12
N2 - Maritime transportation plays a critical role for the U.S. and global economies, and has evolved into a complex system that involves a plethora of supply chain stakeholders spread around the globe. The inherent complexity brings huge security challenges including cargo loss and high burdens in cargo inspection against illicit activities and potential terrorist attacks. The emerging blockchain technology provides a promising tool to build a unified maritime cargo tracking system critical for cargo security. However, most existing efforts focus on transportation data itself, while ignoring how to bind the physical cargo movements and information managed by the system consistently. This can severely undermine the effectiveness of securing cargo transportation. To fulfill this gap, we propose a binding scheme leveraging a novel digital identity management mechanism. The digital identity management mechanism maps the best practice in the physical world to the cyber world and can be seamlessly integrated with a blockchain-based cargo management system.
AB - Maritime transportation plays a critical role for the U.S. and global economies, and has evolved into a complex system that involves a plethora of supply chain stakeholders spread around the globe. The inherent complexity brings huge security challenges including cargo loss and high burdens in cargo inspection against illicit activities and potential terrorist attacks. The emerging blockchain technology provides a promising tool to build a unified maritime cargo tracking system critical for cargo security. However, most existing efforts focus on transportation data itself, while ignoring how to bind the physical cargo movements and information managed by the system consistently. This can severely undermine the effectiveness of securing cargo transportation. To fulfill this gap, we propose a binding scheme leveraging a novel digital identity management mechanism. The digital identity management mechanism maps the best practice in the physical world to the cyber world and can be seamlessly integrated with a blockchain-based cargo management system.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Security
KW - Supply chain management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060494830&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/THS.2018.8574184
DO - 10.1109/THS.2018.8574184
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060494830
T3 - 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2018
BT - 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 October 2018 through 24 October 2018
ER -