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Blockchain Technologies and Applications for IoT

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 3070

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Youakim Badr

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Guest Editor
Big Data Lab, Engineering Division, The Pennsylvania State University, Malvern, PA 19355, USA
Interests: Internet of Things; reusable and self adaptable devices; blockchain-based identity and access controls; applied machine learning; reinforcement learning
Prof. Dr. Salim Hariri

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Guest Editor
Autonomic Computing Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA
Interests: autonomic computing; cyber security; anomaly behavior analysis; cluster computing; blockchain-based resilient systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global infrastructure for the information society. In the past few decades, the IoT has emerged, grown, and gradually affected the daily lives of human beings with new applications and services, ranging from wearable devices, smart manufacturing, smart girds, to smart homes, self-driving cars and ambient intelligence, to mention a few.

Unconventional characteristics in the IoT such as scalability, heterogeneity, mobility, limited resources, and security raise scientific and technical challenges, and render existing information and technology solutions inadequate.

The emergence of blockchain technologies opens new business opportunities in Fintech and distributed applications. They have developed into game changers due to their unique capabilities and benefits. Blockchain-based IoT will be nothing less than a paradigm shift and has potential to help address some of the IoT challenges.

By using blockchains as a back-end technology, it becomes possible to build large scale, peer-to-peer IoT systems in trustless environments by which all things and people self-manage their systems without relying on any third parties.

This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute with original contributions and reviews that address shortcomings and constraints of both IoT and blockchain technologies, address challenges in recent trends in IoT blockchain-based applications, and provide innovative solutions on the convergence of blockchain and IoT.

Dr. Youakim Badr
Prof. Dr. Salim Hariri
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Blockchain technology for IoT
  • New consensus protocols for IoT Applications
  • Frameworks and software platforms for blockchains in IoT
  • Scalability, interoperability and blockchain for IoT applications
  • New emerging architectures for security and privacy in IoT applications
  • Evaluation and experimental analysis of blockchain IoT applications
  • Machine Learning for blockchain-based IoT applications
  • Artificial intelligence and blockchain for IoT applications
  • Blockchain-as-a-service
  • IoT applications based on blockchain technology
  • Blockchain identity management and security
  • Blockchain 3.0 and Blockchain 4.0

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HyperLedger Fabric-Based Proactive Defense against Inside Attackers in the WSN With Trust Mechanism
by Kyeongsun Cho and Youngho Cho
Electronics 2020, 9(10), 1659; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9101659 - 12 Oct 2020
Cited by 11 | Viewed by 2509
Abstract
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the Trust Mechanism (TM) is used to defend against insider attacks by measuring the trustworthiness of all inside sensor nodes in the network. Thus, each sensor node with TM observes its neighbor nodes’ behaviors, evaluates their trustworthiness as [...] Read more.
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the Trust Mechanism (TM) is used to defend against insider attacks by measuring the trustworthiness of all inside sensor nodes in the network. Thus, each sensor node with TM observes its neighbor nodes’ behaviors, evaluates their trustworthiness as numeric trust values, and captures untrustworthy nodes as inside attackers. Although the defense performance of trust mechanisms can be further improved by sharing the information about inside attackers detected by TM with all sensor nodes, the detected inside attacker list must be securely shared with and stored in all sensor nodes in the WSN. However, according to our survey, we observed that most existing studies simply assume that the communication channel for sharing the attacker detection list is reliable and trusted even in the presence of inside attackers in the WSN. In this paper, we propose and implement a proactive defense model that integrates the HyperLedger Fabric and trust mechanism to defend against inside attackers by securely sharing the detected inside attacker list with all sensor nodes in the WSN. In addition, we conduct comparative experiments to show that our proposed model can better defend against inside attackers than an existing trust mechanism. According to our experimental results, our proposed model could lower the attack damage (the number of packet drops) caused by an inside packet drop attacker by 59 to 67% compared to an existing trust mechanism. Full article
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