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Rui Cruz,  P.h.D., Assistant Professor at Técnico Lisboa: rui.cruz@ieee.org, rui.s.cruz@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Project Deliveries:

• Designing the system architecture and application components

Choose the tools for implementing the attribute-based access control model

Design system architecture and initial model

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  Deliverable: System Architecture Design Document

• Configuring Hypereldger Fabric 1.4 based on the project application

•  Deliverable: configuration code for HF 1.4

• Implementing Chaincodes/ smart contracts based on attribute-based access control components

Implementing the chaincodes, which are responsible for storing subject and objects attributes

Implement chainCode that record policies on blockchain

Implement PDP chainCode, which is a chainCode that evaluates requests and checks requests access permissions (Policy Decision Point)

Implement tests for chainCode

•  Deliverable: Application ChainCodes and smart contracts

• Testing and analyzing system based on a designed case study

Defining a case study and defining attributes and policies based on the case study

Evaluating the implemented system based on designed case study

•  Deliverable: Test results and Documentation

• Writing an academic paper based on system design, implementation, and analysis

Outline the paper

Writing the paper based on system features and capabilities

•  Deliverable: Academic paper

• Throughout the documentation, including:

•  Project Wiki
•  Presentation slides
•  Video Tutorials

Project milestones:

First Quarter:

• Project kick-off, discuss project steps, investigate the required tools and components of the project, design project objectives, milestones, and planning the project (June 14)
• Hyperledger Fabric 1.4 network configuration and running, design system architecture and components using ArchiMate (July 5th)
• ChainCodes/ Smart contracts implementation for attribute and policy recording (July 18th)
• 1st Evaluation and report (July 18th)

Second Quarter:

• ChainCodes/ Smart contracts implementation for access control evaluation (PDP) (August 2nd)
• Define a case study to implement for evaluating the system (August 4^th)
• Implementing the case study and application API for sending requests to the blockchain applications and receiving responses from it. (August 30th)
• 2^nd Evaluation and report (August 29^th)

Third Quarter:

• Testing the system (September 12th)
• Analyzing the result (September 22th)
• Investigating the possibility to present a project as a module for Hyperledger Fabric (October 17th)
• 3rd Evaluation and report. (October 17th)

Final Quarter:

• Drafting the paper outline (October 20th)
• and writing the academic paper (November 5th)
• Completing documentation and project wiki and creating project presentation slides and video tutorial for running the project (November 15th)
• Final Evaluation and report (November 15th)