A Blockchain-Centric IoT Architecture for Effective Smart Contract-Based Management of IoT Data Communications
-
Published:2023-06-06
Issue:12
Volume:12
Page:2564
-
ISSN:2079-9292
-
Container-title:Electronics
-
language:en
-
Short-container-title:Electronics
Author:
Albulayhi Abdulsalam S.1, Alsukayti Ibrahim S.1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Department of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
The exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is being witnessed nowadays in different sectors. This makes IoT data communications more complex and harder to manage. Addressing such a challenge using a centralized model is an ineffective approach and would result in security and privacy difficulties. Technologies such as blockchain provide a potential solution to enable secure and effective management of IoT data communication in a distributed and trustless manner. In this paper, a novel lightweight blockchain-centric IoT architecture is proposed to address effective IoT data communication management. It is based on an event-driven smart contract that enables manageable and trustless IoT data exchange using a simple publish/subscribe model. To maintain system complexity and overhead at a minimum, the design of the proposed system relies on a single smart contract. All the system operations that enable effective IoT data communication among the different parties of the system are defined in the smart contract. There is no direct blockchain–IoT-device interaction, making the system more useable in wide IoT deployments incorporating IoT devices with limited computing and energy resources. A practical Ethereum-based implementation of the system was developed with the ability to simulate different IoT setups. The evaluation results demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed architecture. Considering varying-scale and varying-density experimental setups, reliable and secure data communications were achieved with little latency and resource consumption.
Funder
Deanship of Scientific Research, Qassim University
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
Reference41 articles.
1. Da Costa, T.P., Gillespie, J., Cama-Moncunill, X., Ward, S., Condell, J., Ramanathan, R., and Murphy, F. (2023). A Systematic Review of Real-Time Monitoring Technologies and Its Potential Application to Reduce Food Loss and Waste: Key Elements of Food Supply Chains and IoT Technologies. Sustainability, 15. 2. Salhaoui, M., Guerrero-González, A., Arioua, M., Ortiz, F.J., El Oualkadi, A., and Torregrosa, C.L. (2019). Smart Industrial IoT Monitoring and Control System Based on UAV and Cloud Computing Applied to a Concrete Plant. Sensors, 19. 3. A review of the applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) for agricultural automation;Kim;J. Biosyst. Eng.,2020 4. A comprehensive review on IoT-based infrastructure for smart grid applications;Pal;IET Renew. Power Gener.,2021 5. Al-rawashdeh, M., Keikhosrokiani, P., Belaton, B., Alawida, M., and Zwiri, A. (2022). IoT Adoption and Application for Smart Healthcare: A Systematic Review. Sensors, 22.
Cited by
4 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
|
|