A Survey on Emerging Blockchain Technology Platforms for Securing the Internet of Things

IF 2.8 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Future Internet Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI:10.3390/fi16080285

Yunus Kareem, D. Djenouri, Essam Ghadafi

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Abstract

The adoption of blockchain platforms to bolster the security of Internet of Things (IoT) systems has attracted significant attention in recent years. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive and systematic survey papers in the literature addressing these platforms. This paper discusses six of the most popular emerging blockchain platforms adopted by IoT systems and analyses their usage in state-of-the-art works to solve security problems. The platform was compared in terms of security features and other requirements. Findings from the study reveal that most blockchain components contribute directly or indirectly to IoT security. Blockchain platform components such as cryptography, consensus mechanism, and hashing are common ways that security is achieved in all blockchain platform for IoT. Technologies like Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) can further enhance data and communication security when used alongside blockchain. To enhance the applicability of blockchain in resource-constrained IoT environments, future research should focus on refining cryptographic algorithms and consensus mechanisms to optimise performance and security.

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新兴区块链技术平台保障物联网安全调查

近年来，采用区块链平台加强物联网（IoT）系统的安全性引起了广泛关注。目前，文献中缺乏针对这些平台的全面系统的调查论文。本文讨论了物联网系统采用的六种最流行的新兴区块链平台，并分析了它们在解决安全问题的最新作品中的使用情况。在安全功能和其他要求方面对平台进行了比较。研究结果表明，大多数区块链组件都直接或间接地促进了物联网安全。加密技术、共识机制和哈希算法等区块链平台组件是所有物联网区块链平台实现安全的常见方式。星际文件系统（IPFS）和传输层安全（TLS）等技术与区块链一起使用时，可进一步增强数据和通信的安全性。为了提高区块链在资源有限的物联网环境中的适用性，未来的研究应侧重于完善加密算法和共识机制，以优化性能和安全性。

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Future Internet Computer Science-Computer Networks and Communications

CiteScore

7.10

自引率

5.90%

发文量

303

审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： Future Internet is a scholarly open access journal which provides an advanced forum for science and research concerned with evolution of Internet technologies and related smart systems for “Net-Living” development. The general reference subject is therefore the evolution towards the future internet ecosystem, which is feeding a continuous, intensive, artificial transformation of the lived environment, for a widespread and significant improvement of well-being in all spheres of human life (private, public, professional). Included topics are: • advanced communications network infrastructures • evolution of internet basic services • internet of things • netted peripheral sensors • industrial internet • centralized and distributed data centers • embedded computing • cloud computing • software defined network functions and network virtualization • cloud-let and fog-computing • big data, open data and analytical tools • cyber-physical systems • network and distributed operating systems • web services • semantic structures and related software tools • artificial and augmented intelligence • augmented reality • system interoperability and flexible service composition • smart mission-critical system architectures • smart terminals and applications • pro-sumer tools for application design and development • cyber security compliance • privacy compliance • reliability compliance • dependability compliance • accountability compliance • trust compliance • technical quality of basic services.