Blockchain for 5G-enabled IoT for industrial automation: A systematic review, solutions, and challenges

By Isha Mistry, Sudeep Tanwar, Sudhanshu Tyagi, Neeraj Kumar. Mechanical systems and signal processing, 2020

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Abstract Internet-of-Things (IoT) has made ubiquitous computing a reality by extending Internet connectivity in various applications deployed across the globe. IoT connect billions of objects together for high speed data transfer especially in 5G-enabled industrial environment during information collection and processing. Most of the issues such as access control mechanism, time to fetch the data from different devices and protocols used may not be applicable infor future applications as these protocols are based upon a centralized architecture. This centralized architecture may have a single point of failure alongwith the computational overhead. So, there is a need for an efficient decentralized access control mechanism for device-to-device (D2D) communication in various industrial sectors IoT-enabled industrial automation. In such an environment, security and privacy preservation are major concerns as most of the solutions are based upon the centralized architecture. To mitigate the aforementioned issues, in this paper, we present an in-depth survey of state-of-the-art proposals having 5G-enabled IoT as a backbone for blockchain-based industrial automation for the applications such as-Smart city, Smart Home, Healthcare 4.0, Smart Agriculture, Autonomous vehicles and Supply chain management. From the existing proposals, it has been observed that blockchain can revolutionize most of the current and future industrial applications in different sectors by providing a fine-grained decentralized access control. Various transactions and database logs can be traced efficiently using blockchain for consistency and preivacy preservation in the aforementiioned industrial sectors. The open issues and challenges of 5G-enabled IoT for blockchain-based Industrial automation are also analyzed in the text. Finally, a comparison of existing proposals with respect to various parameters is presented which allows the end users to select one of the proposals in comparison to its merits over the others.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Blockchain for 5G and Beyond Networks: A State of the Art Survey (2019, background): “Similarly, the studies in [25], [26] presented a brief review on the benefits of blockchain for 5G-based industrial IoTs.”
Blockchain for Industry 4.0: A Comprehensive Review (2020, background): “The authors also suggested that the extensive use of the private ledger could lead to the improvement in performance, efﬁciency, and security for various real-time applications such as smart parking of vehicles, smart cleaning, smart home, and trafﬁc control system in a smart city [131].”