Cross-Domain Identity Authentication Scheme for the IIoT Identification Resolution System Based on Self-Sovereign Identity
Yunhua He, Tingli Yuan, Bin Lin Wu, Keshav Sood, Ke Xiao, Xiuzhen Cheng · IEEE Transactions on Networking · 2025
In the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the identification resolution system enhances communication and overall efficiency between isolated work islands, ensuring the trustworthiness and effectiveness of secure resource sharing across domains through cross-domain authentication. However, traditional identity authentication methods fail to empower users with control over their identity information and face challenges such as difficulty in tracking anonymous users, high computational overhead, and insufficient cross-domain trust. To address these issues, this paper proposes a cross-domain identity authentication scheme based on self-sovereign identity. The scheme leverages aggregate signature technology to enhance authentication efficiency, integrates blockchain technology and smart contracts to achieve cross-domain trust, and designs a mechanism for threshold identity tracking and revocation, as well as an attribute credential update mechanism to enable secure and efficient cross-domain authentication in the identification resolution system. The paper provides formal security definitions and proofs and evaluates the computational and storage efficiency of the scheme through theoretical analysis and experimental simulations. The results demonstrate that the proposed scheme offers significant advantages in resource-constrained scenarios within the IIoT.