SmartBlock-SDN: An Optimized Blockchain-SDN Framework for Resource Management in IoT
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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Blockchain are leading technologies used worldwide to establish safe network communication as well as build secure network infrastructures. They provide a robust and reliable platform to address threats and face challenges such as security, privacy, flexibility, scalability, and confidentiality. Driven by these assumptions, this paper presents an optimized energy-efficient and secure Blockchain-based software-defined IoT framework for smart networks. Indeed, SDN and Blockchain technologies have proven to be able to suitably manage resource utilization and to develop secure network communication across the IoT ecosystem. However, there is a lack of research works that present a comprehensive definition of such a framework that can meet the requirements of the IoT ecosystem (i.e. efficient energy utilization and reduced end-to-end delay). Therefore, in this research, we present a layered hierarchical architecture for the deployment of a distributed yet efficient Blockchain-enabled SDN-IoT framework that ensures efficient cluster-head selection and secure network communication via the identification and isolation of rouge switches. Besides, the Blockchain-enabled flow-rules record keeps track of the rules enforced in the switches and maintains the consistency within the controller cluster. Finally, we assess the performance of the proposed framework in a simulation environment and show that it can achieve optimized energy-utilization, end-to-end delay, and throughput compared to considered baselines, thus being able to achieve efficiency and security in the smart network.
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- Authors
- Rahman, A., Islam, M. J., Montieri, A., Nasir, M. K., Reza, M. M., Band, S. S., Pescape, A., Hasan, M., Sookhak, M., & Mosavi, A.
- Affiliations
- Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (BD)
- Green University of Bangladesh (BD)
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- Duy Tan University (VN)
- National Institute of Textile Engineering and Research (BD)
- Illinois State University (US)
- Obuda University (HU)
- ORCID
- Venue
- IEEE Access
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 28361-28376
- ISSN
- 2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3126817508
- Cited by
- 187
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 13
- FWCI
- 14.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- IEEE Access (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Greater South Information System
- Funders
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and by the Open Access Funding by the Publication Fund of the TU Dresden
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Software-Defined Networks and 5G
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Keywords
- software-defined networking, blockchain, Internet of Things, resource management, energy efficiency, end-to-end delay, cluster head selection, flow rule, hierarchy, network security
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