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Internet of Things (IoT) security with blockchain technology: A state-of-the-art review

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Ayub Khan, Abdullah, Laghari, Asif Ali, Shaikh, Zaffar Ahmed, Dacko-Pikiewicz, Zdzislawa, Kot, Sebastian·2022·IEEE Access

Abstract

With the rapid enhancement in the design and development of the Internet of Things creates a new research interest in the adaptation in industrial domains. It is due to the impact of distributed emerging technology and topology of industrial Internet of Things and the security-related resource constraints of industrial 5.0. This conducts new paradigm along with critical challenges to the existing information preservation, node transactions and communication, transmission, trust and privacy, and security protection related problems. These critical aspects pose serious limitations and issues for the industry to provide industrial data integrity, information exchange reliability, provenance, and trustworthiness for the overall activities and service delivery prospects. In addition, the intersection of blockchain and industrial IoT has gained more consideration and research interest. However, there is an emerging limitation between the inadequate performance of industrial IoT and connected nodes, and the high resource requirement of permissioned private blockchain ledger has not yet been tackled with the complete solution. Due to the introductions of NuCypher Re-Encryption infrastructure, hashing tree and allocation, and deployment of blockchain proof-of-work required more computational power as well. This paper is divided into three different folds; first, we studied various related literature of blockchain-enabling industrial Internet of Things and its critical implementation challenging aspects along with the solution. Secondly, we proposed a blockchain hyperledger sawtooth-enabled framework. This framework provides a secure and trusted execution environment, in which service delivery mechanisms and protocols are designed with an acknowledgment, including the immutable ledger storage security, along with the peer-to-peer network on-chain and off-chain communication of industrial activities. Thirdly, we design pseudo-chain codes and consensus protocols to provide smooth industrial node streamline transactions and broadcast content. The proposed multiple proof-of-work investigated and simulated using Hyperledger Sawtooth-enabled docker for testing to exchange information between connected devices of industrial Internet of Things within the limited usage of resource constraints.

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  1. Naydenova, Ina, Zlatinka Kovacheva, and Kalinka Kaloyanova. "Data Quality: Enterprise Initiatives' Issues and WSN Challenges." Sensors & Transducers 251, no. 4 (2021): 37-46.

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Authors
Ayub Khan, A., Laghari, A. A., Shaikh, Z. A., Dacko-Pikiewicz, Z., & Kot, S.
Affiliations
  • Department of Computer Science, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Sindh Madressatul Islam University (PK)
  • Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (PK)
  • Department of Management, Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, Dabrowa Góornicza, Poland
  • Częstochowa University of Technology (PL)
Venue
IEEE Access
Published
2022
Volume
10
Pages
122679-122695
ISSN
2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4312543091
Cited by
223
References
107
Citations by year
2026: 29 · 2025: 71 · 2024: 73 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 4
FWCI
48.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • IEEE Access (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
Keywords
Internet of Things security, blockchain, Industrial Internet of Things, Hyperledger Sawtooth, proof-of-work consensus, resource-constrained devices, data integrity, trust and privacy, peer-to-peer communication, consensus algorithms

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