Blockchain-Integrated Access Control for Wireless Edge Networks
Sheetal Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications (DCA), Presidency College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India sheetal-coll@presidency.edu.in0000-0002-1337-6117
Dr.R. Hannah Jessie RaniAssistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Ramanagara District, Karnataka, India jr.hannah@jainuniversity.ac.in0000-0002-5449-104X
Dr. Pratyashi SatapathyAssistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India pratyashisatapathy@soa.ac.in0009-0009-0333-1159
K.H. SwethaAsisstant Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Presidency University, Bangaluru, Karnataka, India swetha.kh@presidencyuniversity.in0009-0000-9027-2090
Digvijay SinghSchool of Engineering & Computing, Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University, Dehradun. socse.digvijaysingh@dbuu.ac.in0000-0002-9334-0025
Suhas GuptaCentre of Research Impact and Outcome, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India. suhas.gupta.orp@chitkara.edu.in0009-0004-9791-2416
In this framework, Blockchain-Integrated Access Control for Wireless Edge Networks intends to attempt authentication and authorization by using smart contracts and immutable ledgers making it secure and decentralized. It increases trust among edge nodes by connecting them, thereby creating a single point of failure, while providing transparent and tamper-resistant enforcement of policies, which improves scalability, resilience, and performance, ultimately making it the Mold for IoT and edge computing environments. The objectives that the system intends to apply towards are design and implement decentralized access control for wireless edge networks using Blockchain, to provide tamper-proof identity verification solutions, to ensure dynamic access policies enforced through smart contracts, to reduce dependency on central authorities, and also to increase security and privacy, scaling trust, and transparency in the distributed IoT and edge environments. The proposed system proposed to implement decentralized access control via private Blockchain in wireless edge networks. Smart contracts are crafted to dynamically facilitate identity authentication, access rights, and the enforcement of policies. Edge nodes interface with the Blockchain to verify credentials and log access attempts immutably. To curb latency and overhead, lightweight cryptography schemes and consensus algorithms such as PBFT are employed. Simulation in a wireless edge environment showed improvements in access request validation by 35%, unauthorized access attempts down by 42%, and improved scalability with respect to conventional centralized models, showing that the model is effectual and robust in secure access control.