Interoperable Access and Usage Control of Self-Sovereign Digital Twins Using ODRL and I4.0 Language

Jiahang Chen, Lennart Schinke, Xuebilian Gong, Martin Hoppen, Jürgen Roßmann

2024

Abstract

The trend in digital transformation catalyzes an increasing amount of Digital Twins (DTs) being interconnected to share data and services. In this context, secured interconnections of DTs are a key foundation for establishing a trustworthy environment, which necessitates fundamental technologies and concepts regarding access control. Considering the layer of usage restrictions of data and services, traditional access control can be extended to usage control. Here, diverse policy models utilized to formalize access and usage control result in a lack of interoperability, especially in a decentralized Internet of Things (IoT). To address this issue, we propose in this paper a concept that applies Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) to describe access and usage control policies in an interoperable way. Besides, we define a message-based communication protocol based on Industry 4.0 (I4.0) language to flexibly enable interoperable interactions with policy engines. The proposed concept is then integrated in an access and usage control management system and demonstrated in a proof-of-concept manner. Here it is also shown why the proposed concept forms a basis for the implementation of self-sovereign Digital Twins (SSDTs).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chen J., Schinke L., Gong X., Hoppen M. and Roßmann J. (2024). Interoperable Access and Usage Control of Self-Sovereign Digital Twins Using ODRL and I4.0 Language. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS; ISBN 978-989-758-699-6, SciTePress, pages 75-85. DOI: 10.5220/0012686500003705

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds24,
author={Jiahang Chen and Lennart Schinke and Xuebilian Gong and Martin Hoppen and Jürgen Roßmann},
title={Interoperable Access and Usage Control of Self-Sovereign Digital Twins Using ODRL and I4.0 Language},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS},
year={2024},
pages={75-85},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012686500003705},
isbn={978-989-758-699-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS
TI - Interoperable Access and Usage Control of Self-Sovereign Digital Twins Using ODRL and I4.0 Language
SN - 978-989-758-699-6
AU - Chen J.
AU - Schinke L.
AU - Gong X.
AU - Hoppen M.
AU - Roßmann J.
PY - 2024
SP - 75
EP - 85
DO - 10.5220/0012686500003705
PB - SciTePress