HyperProv: Decentralized Resilient Data Provenance at the Edge with Blockchains

TL;DR

HyperProv is a blockchain-based framework for decentralized data provenance that operates efficiently on edge devices like Raspberry Pi, ensuring data integrity and reproducibility in distributed environments.

Contribution

It introduces HyperProv, the first blockchain-based provenance system compatible with ARM devices, enabling lightweight, decentralized data tracking at the edge.

Findings

HyperProv achieves high throughput and low resource consumption.

It performs efficiently on both x86-64 and Raspberry Pi devices.

The system supports off-chain storage and smart contract queries for provenance data.

Abstract

Data provenance and lineage are critical for ensuring integrity and reproducibility of information in research and application. This is particularly challenging for distributed scenarios, where data may be originating from decentralized sources without any central control by a single trusted entity. We present HyperProv, a general framework for data provenance based on the permissioned blockchain Hyperledger Fabric (HLF), and to the best of our knowledge, the first system that is ported to ARM based devices such as Raspberry Pi (RPi). HyperProv tracks the metadata, operation history and data lineage through a set of built-in queries using smart contracts, enabling lightweight retrieval of provenance data. HyperProv provides convenient integration through a NodeJS client library, and also includes off-chain storage through the SSH file system. We evaluate HyperProv's performance, throughput, resource consumption, and energy efficiency on x86-64 machines, as well as on RPi devices for IoT use cases at the edge.