Blockchain-Based Secure Device Management Framework for an Internet of Things Network in a Smart City
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The broadly configured smart city network requires a variety of security considerations for a heterogeneous device environment. Because a network of heterogeneous devices facilitates an attacker’s intrusion through a specific device or node, a device management framework is required to manage each node comprehensively. This paper proposes a blockchain-based device management framework for efficient device management, scalable firmware update and resiliences on attacks against smart city network. This framework offers four device management and firmware update mechanisms based on the performance and requirements of each device: bidirectional mechanism of general end node and a unidirectional mechanism of the lightweight end node. This difference optimizes the resource of network and devices in terms of management and security. All management history of each device is stored in the blockchain and transmitting firmware between vendor and management node is conducted through a smart contract of blockchain for security and resilience on the attack. Through the framework proposed in this paper, the confidentiality and availability of device management on smart city network as well as integrity, auditability, adaptability and authentication for each node are ensured and the effectiveness of the proposed framework is presented through the security analysis.
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The red cluster provides a general overview of blockchain applications in the smart city and the role of the technology in optimizing efficiency and strengthening security and privacy of various smart city applications such as IoT, IoV, and big data.
“This cluster provides a general overview of blockchain applications in the smart city (Rahman et al., 2019; E. Xie et al., 2006) and the role of the technology in optimizing the efficiency and strengthening the security and privacy of various smart city applications such as IoT (Gong et al. 2019; Shen et al. 2019; Viriyasitavat et al. 2019), IoV (Chen et al. 2020; Iqbal et al. 2020; Yin et al. 202”
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- Authors
- Gong, S., Tcydenova, E., Jo, J., Lee, Y., & Park, J. H.
- Affiliations
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology (KR)
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 08826, Korea
- Corresponding author
- Park, Jong Hyuk
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-07-17
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 3889
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2958317794
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 7.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology (This study was supported by the Advanced Research Project funded by the SeoulTech(Seoul National University of Science and Technology))
- 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 › Internet of Things and AI
- Keywords
- blockchain, device management, Internet of Things, smart cities, firmware updates, smart contracts, heterogeneous devices, attack resilience, auditability, node authentication, network security
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