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This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the existing blockchain protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. We start by describing the blockchains and summarizing the existing surveys that deal with blockchain technologies.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Makhlouf Derdour , Mithun Mukherjee , Abdelouahid Derhab , Leandros Maglaras , Helge Janicke

Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) is a powerful IoT application which remodels the growth of industries by ensuring transparent communication among various entities such as hubs, manufacturing places and packaging units. Introducing data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Geetanjali Rathee , Farhan Ahmad , Naveen Jaglan , Charalambos Konstantinou

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies have received significant interest in various areas beyond the financial sector, with profound applications in the Internet of Things (IoT), providing the means for creating truly trustless and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sotirios Brotsis , Konstantinos Limniotis , Gueltoum Bendiab , Nicholas Kolokotronis , Stavros Shiaeles

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is facing significant scalability and security challenges. On the one hand, IoT devices are "weak" and need external assistance. Edge computing provides a promising direction addressing the deficiency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jianli Pan , Jianyu Wang , Austin Hester , Ismail Alqerm , Yuanni Liu , Ying Zhao

Industry 4.0 is all about doing things in a concurrent, secure, and fine-grained manner. IoT edge-sensors and their associated data play a predominant role in today's industry ecosystem. Breaching data or forging source devices after…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ziaur Rahman , Xun Yi Ibrahim Khalil

With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Machine Type Communication (MTC) has become an important use case of the Fifth Generation (5G) communication systems. Since MTC devices are mostly disconnected from Base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Junseok Kim , Seongwon Kim , T. Taleb , Sunghyun Choi

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already changed our daily lives by integrating smart devices together towards delivering high quality services to its clients. These devices when integrated together form a network through which massive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Zulfiqar Ali Khan , Akbar Siami Namin

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that has applications in many domains such as cryptocurrency, smart contracts, supply chain management, and many others. Distributed consensus is a fundamental component of blockchain systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Siamak Abdi , Giuseppe Di Fatta , Atta Badii , Giancarlo Fortino

The growing utilization of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, including smartwatches and wearable medical devices, has facilitated real-time health monitoring and data analysis to enhance healthcare outcomes. These gadgets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Musharraf N. Alruwaill , Saraju P. Mohanty , Elias Kougianos

With the rise of cryptocurrencies, many new applications built on decentralized blockchains have emerged. Blockchains are full-stack distributed systems where multiple sub-systems interact. While many deployed blockchains and decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ivan Homoliak

Blockchain, as well as Internet of Things (IoT), is considered as two major disruptive emerging technologies. However, both of them suffer from innate technological limitations to some extent. IoT requires strengthening its security…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Mahdi H. Miraz

With the rapid growth of hyperconnected devices and decentralized data architectures, safeguarding Internet of Things (IoT) transactions is becoming increasingly challenging. Blockchain presents a promising solution, yet its effectiveness…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Sokratis Vavilis , Harris Niavis , Konstantinos Loupos

In this paper, we propose a trust-centric privacy-preserving blockchain for dynamic spectrum access in IoT networks. To be specific, we propose a trust evaluation mechanism to evaluate the trustworthiness of sensing nodes and design a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jingwei Ye , Xin Kang , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun

In recent years, the advancement in modern technologies has experienced an explosion of huge data sets being captured and recorded in different fields, but also given rise to concerns the security and protection of data storage,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Uchi Ugobame Uchibeke , Sara Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Kevin A. Schneider , Ralph Deters

Space situation awareness (SSA) includes tracking of active and inactive resident space objects (RSOs) and assessing the space environment through sensor data collection and processing. To enhance SSA, the dynamic data-driven applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Ronghua Xu , Yu Chen , Erik Blasch , Genshe Chen

The growing complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) environments, particularly in cross-domain data sharing, presents significant security challenges. Existing data-sharing schemes often rely on computationally expensive cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Kexian Liu , Jianfeng Guan , Xiaolong Hu , Jianli Liu , Hongke Zhang

Blockchain has recently been able to draw wider attention throughout the research community. Since its emergence, the world has seen the mind-blowing expansion of this new technology, which was initially developed as a pawn of digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ziaur Rahman , Xun Yi , Sk. Tanzir Mehedi , Rafiqul Islam , Andrei Kelarev

Blockchain technology has advanced rapidly in recent years and is now widely used in a variety of fields. Blockchain appears to be one of the best solutions for managing massive heterogeneous devices while achieving advanced data security…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xu Yuan , Fang Luo , Muhammad Zeeshan Haider , Zhikui Chen , Yucheng Li

The integration of blockchain technology with the Internet of Things (IoT) presents a promising solution to enhance data security, integrity, and trust within IoT ecosystems. However, the immutable nature of blockchain technology conflicts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Arpish R. Solanki

A blockchain and smart contract enabled security mechanism for IoT applications has been reported recently for urban, financial, and network services. However, due to the power-intensive and a low-throughput consensus mechanism in existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Ronghua Xu , Yu Chen , Erik Blasch , Genshe Chen