IoT security: Review, blockchain solutions, and open challenges

By Minhaj Ahmad Khan, Khaled Hamed Salah. Future generations computer systems, 2017

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Signal Processing

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/81f6442e50890b990598e637a44b2d8d10329710

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A Scalable Multi-Layer PBFT Consensus for Blockchain (2020, background): “…in other applications such as blockchain-enabled scenarios with massive IoT devices connection, where scalability is a bottleneck but not latency, multi-layer PBFT provides a solution with greatly improved node scalability while protecting the system from malicious attacks [22], [23], [24].”
Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review and Directions for Future Research (2019, background): “In the review paper of Khan and Salah [160], several security and privacy vulnerabilities in the current IoT ecosystem were identified for further research including protection during updating software of billions of IoT devices (healthcare, for instance) where blockchain could be used to enhance se”
A Roadmap Toward the Resilient Internet of Things for Cyber-Physical Systems (2018, background): “However, through recent implementations and usage in cryptocurrencies [173], [174] the attention is shifted towards smart contracts and blockchains which ensure authentication and integrity of data [44], [46], [47], [96].”
Enabling Massive IoT Toward 6G: A Comprehensive Survey (2021, background): “In IoT systems, different nodes need to cooperate with each other to provide services, which necessities the need of managing the identity of nodes and realizing security authentication between nodes [139].”
A Hybrid BlockChain-Based Identity Authentication Scheme for Multi-WSN (2020, background): “Therefore, it is necessary to manage the identity of sensor nodes safely and to realize the security authentication between sensor nodes [7].”
IoT Privacy and Security: Challenges and Solutions (2020, background): “The ubiquitous connectivity via the Internet access is also an essential factor that helps in understanding this problem because unless there is a unique mechanism put in place, then it will be decidedly more comfortable to access the personal information from any corner of the world [16].”
A Survey on Ethereum Systems Security (2019, background): “The success of Ethereum ushers in Blockchain 2.0, which has many applications in Artificial Intelligence [165], Internet of Things [62, 122, 172], and digital assets [113, 114].”
Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges (2018, background): “Although blockchains are one of the promising technologies for securing IoT application, but they suffer from the following vulnerabilities [74], [75].”
A Survey on Blockchain Technology: Evolution, Architecture and Security (2021, background): “Some survey articles have also presented different Blockchain applications [26], [151] while major review focus has been on Blockchain applications with other technologies like IoT and smart cities [8], [9], [14], [21]– [25].”
Anatomy of Threats to the Internet of Things (2019, background): “Whereas, blockchain with its smart contract technology gives users the freedom to restrict access to their data to authorized entities only, without placing trust in any third party or a cloud service provider [187].”