SBAC: A secure blockchain-based access control framework for information-centric networking

The information-centric networking (ICN) has been proposed to meet the increasing demand for efficient content delivery. However, the in-network caching mechanism of ICN makes it hard to provide data security and privacy for content providers (CPs). Although many access control schemes are proposed to improve the security of ICN, there are still some problems unsolved. On the one hand, in spite of the centralized access control schemes are...