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SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
The wide range of topics presented in this book have been chosen to provide the reader with a better understanding of smart cities integrated with AI and blockchain and related security issues.
The goal of this book is to provide detailed, in-depth information on the state-of-the-art architecture and infrastructure used to develop smart cities using the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain security—the key technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. The book outlines the theoretical concepts, experimental studies, and various smart city applications that create value for inhabitants of urban areas. Several issues that have arisen with the advent of smart cities and novel solutions to resolve these issues are presented. The IoT along with the integration of blockchain and AI provides efficient, safe, secure, and transparent ways to solve different types of social, governmental, and demographic issues in the dynamic urban environment. A top-down strategy is adopted to introduce the architecture, infrastructure, features, and security.
Audience
The core audience is researchers in artificial intelligence, information technology, electronic and electrical engineering, systems engineering, industrial engineering as well as government and city planners.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgment
1 Deep Dive Into Blockchain Technology: Characteristics, Security and Privacy Issues, Challenges, and Future Research Directions
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Blockchain Preliminaries
1.3 Key Technologies of Blockchain
1.4 Consensus Algorithms of Blockchain
1.5 Internet of Things and Blockchain
1.6 Applications of Blockchain in Smart City
1.7 Security and Privacy Properties of Blockchain
1.8 Privacy and Security Practices Employed in Blockchain
1.9 Challenges of Blockchain
1.10 Conclusion
References
2 Toward Smart Cities Based on the Internet of Things
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Smart City Emergence
2.3 Smart and Sustainable City
2.4 Smart City Areas (Sub-Areas)
2.5 IoT
2.6 Examples of Smart Cities
2.7 Smart City Benefits
2.8 Analysis and Discussion
2.9 Conclusion and Perspectives
References
3 Integration of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence in Smart City Perspectives
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Concept of Smart Cities, Blockchain Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
3.3 Smart Cities Integrated with Blockchain Technology
3.4 Smart Cities Integrated with Artificial Intelligence
3.5 Conclusion and Future Work
References
4 Smart City a Change to a New Future World
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Role in Education
4.3 Impact of AI on Smart Cities
4.4 AI and IoT Support in Agriculture
4.5 Smart Meter Reading
4.6 Conclusion
References
5 Registration of Vehicles With Validation and Obvious Manner Through Blockchain: Smart City Approach in Industry 5.0
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Related Work
5.3 Presented Methodology
5.4 Software Requirement Specification
5.5 Software and Hardware Requirements
5.6 Implementation Details
5.7 Results and Discussions
5.8 Novelty and Recommendations
5.9 Future Research Directions
5.10 Limitations
5.11 Conclusions
References
6 Designing of Fuzzy Controller for Adaptive Chair and Desk System
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Time Spent Sitting in Front of Computer Screen
6.3 Posture
6.4 Designing of Ergonomic Seat
6.5 Fuzzy Control Designing
6.6 Result of Chair and Desk Control
6.7 Conclusions and Further Improvements
References
7 Blockchain Technology Dislocates Traditional Practice Through Cost Cutting in International Commodity Exchange
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Blockchain Technology
7.3 Blockchain Solutions
7.4 Conclusion
7.5 Managerial Implication
7.6 Future Scope of Study
References
8 Interplanetary File System Protocol Based Blockchain Framework for Routine Data and Security Management in Smart Farming
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Data Management in Smart Farming
8.3 Proposed Smart Farming Framework
8.4 Farmers Support System
8.5 Results and Discussions
8.6 Conclusion
8.7 Future Scope
References
9 A Review of Blockchain Technology
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Related Work
9.3 Architecture of Blockchain and Its Components
9.4 Blockchain Taxonomy
9.5 Consensus Algorithms
9.6 Challenges in Terms of Technologies
9.7 Major Application Areas
9.8 Conclusion
References
10 Technological Dimension of a Smart City
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Major Advanced Technological Components of ICT in Smart City
10.3 Different Dimensions of Smart Cities
10.4 Issues Related to Smart Cities
10.5 Conclusion
References
11 Blockchain—Does It Unleash the Hitched Chains of Contemporary Technologies
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Historic Culmination of Blockchain
11.3 The Hustle About Blockchain—Revealed
11.4 The Unique Upfront Statuesque of Blockchain
11.5 Blockchain Compeers Complexity
11.6 Paradigm Shift to Deciphering Technologies Adjoining Blockchain
11.7 Convergence of Blockchain and AI Toward a Sustainable Smart City
11.8 Business Manifestations of Blockchain
11.9 Constraints to Adapt to the Resilient Blockchain
11.10 Conclusion
References
12 An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Architecture and Consensus Protocols
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Blockchain Architecture
12.3 Consensus Algorithm
12.4 Conclusion
References
13 Applicability of Utilizing Blockchain Technology in Smart Cities Development
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Smart Cities Concept
13.3 Definition of Smart Cities
13.4 Legal Framework by EU/AIOTI of Smart Cities
13.5 The Characteristics of Smart Cities
13.6 Challenges Faced by Smart Cities
13.7 Blockchain Technology at Glance
13.8 Key Drivers to the Implementation of Blockchain Technology for Smart Cities Development
13.9 Challenges of Utilizing Blockchain in Smart City Development
13.10 Solution Offered by Blockchain to Smart Cities Challenges
13.11 Conclusion
References
About the Editors
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgment
Begin Reading
About the Editors
Index
End User License Agreement
List of Illustrations
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 Smart city according to Nokia.
Figure 2.2 Elements of a smart city.
Figure 2.3 IoE.
Chapter 3
Figure 3.1 Smart city—Conceptual framework.
Figure 3.2 Trend in development of smart cities.
Figure 3.3 Integration of technologies in smart cities.
Figure 3.4 Basic working of blockchain technology.
Figure 3.5 Categorization of artificial intelligence.
Figure 3.6 Smart city model using blockchain technology.
Figure 3.7 Applications in smart city using blockchain technology.
Figure 3.8 Framework of security in smart cities.
Figure 3.9 Role of AI in developing smart city.
Figure 3.10 Infrastructure of four-layer smart city.
Figure 3.11 Operation of autonomous vehicles using AI and LiDAR technology.
Figure 3.12 Smart surveillance by night vision thermal camera system.
Figure 3.13 Smart energy management system with NILM algorithm.
Chapter 4
Figure 4.1 Population in few larger cities of India [6].
Figure 4.2 Information and communication technology (ICT) [15].
Figure 4.3 Air pollution in world [7].
Figure 4.4 Death caused by flood [10].
Figure 4.5 World road traffic [11].
Figure 4.6 Rural population in India [6].
Figure 4.7 Illustration image of smart meter reading [2].
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1 Use case of manufacturer.
Figure 5.2 Use case of dealer.
Figure 5.3 Use case of registration authority.
Figure 5.4 Use case of police.
Figure 5.5 Use case of customer.
Figure 5.6 Sequence diagram.
Figure 5.7 High level view of architecture.
Figure 5.8 Detailed view of architecture.
Figure 5.9 Level 0 DFD.
Figure 5.10 Level 1 DFD.
Figure 5.11 Level 2 DFD.
Figure 5.12 Activity diagram.
Figure 5.13 Entity relationship diagram.
Figure 5.14 Schema for assets.
Figure 5.15 Schema for manufacturer.
Figure 5.16 Schema for RTO.
Figure 5.17 Schema for dealer.
Figure 5.18 Schema for police.
Figure 5.19 Schema for customer.
Figure 5.20 Front page.
Figure 5.21 Main page.
Figure 5.22 Asset creation.
Figure 5.23 Model testing for manufacturer.
Figure 5.24 Transaction history.
Figure 5.25 Process history.
Figure 5.26 Docker file.
Figure 5.27 Test cases.
Chapter 6
Figure 6.1 Parameters that are controlled by the fuzzy controller.
Figure 6.2 Input/output block in fuzzy logic control for adaptive chair and desk...
Figure 6.3 Block diagram of the fuzzy logic controller.
Figure 6.4 Membership function for the height of the person.
Figure 6.5 Membership function for the chair’s height.
Figure 6.6 Membership function for the armrest height.
Figure 6.7 Membership function for the desk height.
Figure 6.8 Membership function for the eye height level.
Figure 6.9 Surface view of eye height level.
Figure 6.10 Surface view of chair’s height.
Figure 6.11 Surface view of desk height.
Figure 6.12 Surface view of seat depth.
Figure 6.13 Rule view of the complete adaptive system, showing results for the p...
Chapter 7
Figure 7.1 Traditional pattern of commodity flow from domestic to international ...
Figure 7.2 Generation of letter of credit from banks to firms. Source: Author’s ...
Figure 7.3 International trading of commodity through blockchain technology. Sou...
Figure 7.4 Presentation of cost associated with FOB in soybeans export supply ch...
Figure 7.5 Representation of cost of handling in a triangular distribution throu...
Figure 7.6 Handling stage from point of origin through @Risk in Pert distributio...
Figure 7.7 Supply chain process for exporting soy beans with PERT identification...
Chapter 8
Figure 8.1 Blockchain in smart farming.
Figure 8.2 Proposed IPFS blockchain-based smart agriculture management system.
Figure 8.3 Architecture of agricultural product information system.
Figure 8.4 Data management model.
Figure 8.5 Android application interface for farmers.
Figure 8.6 ThingSpeak and MATLAB output of various data fields from the smart fa...
Chapter 9
Figure 9.1 Characteristics of blockchain technology.
Figure 9.2 Types of blockchain.
Figure 9.3 DPoS.
Figure 9.4 Benefits of PBFT.
Chapter 10
Figure 10.1 Different dimension smart city.
Chapter 12
Figure 12.1 A block of blockchain.
Figure 12.2 Chain of blocks.
Figure 12.3 Chain of blocks with invalid reference.
Figure 12.4 Block structure.
Figure 12.5 Hashing and digital signature.
Figure 12.6 Byzantine general problem.
Chapter 13
Figure 13.1 Conventional developed city [3].
Figure 13.2 The proposed future smart city adapted from [11].
List of Tables
Chapter 2
Table 2.1 Extract of concepts often associated with the “smart city”.
Table 2.2 Smart city domains and sub-domains.
Table 2.3 Summary of technology and data.
Table 2.4 Economic overview.
Table 2.5 Population domain summary.
Table 2.6 Some definitions of the IoT.
Table 2.7 Some scenarios for the IoT.
Table 2.8 Summary of the impact of the scale on the IoT.
Table 2.9 Summary of the impact of heterogeneity on the IoT.
Table 2.10 Summary of the impact of the physical world on the IoT.
Table 2.11 Security and privacy issues in the IoT.
Table 2.12 Some regions already equipped with intelligent security.
Table 2.13 Concrete use cases of “smart water” technologies.
Chapter 5
Table 5.1 Comparative analysis.
Chapter 6
Table 6.1 Average screen time spent by different age groups and gender.
Table 6.2 Data of different parameters with respect to height of the person.
Table 6.3 Algorithm of fuzzy logic controller.
Table 6.4 Membership function for the height of the person.
Table 6.5 Membership function for the chair height.
Table 6.6 Membership function for the armrest height.
Table 6.7 Membership function for the desk height.
Table 6.8 Membership function for the eye height level.
Table 6.9 Rule base for the adaptive chair and desk system.
Chapter 7
Table 7.1 Structure of contract payment.
Table 7.2 Distribution of cost and various sources of assumptions.
Table 7.3 Costs and time elapsed by Monte Carlo simulation.
Chapter 9
Table 9.1 Comparison between different types of blockchain.
Chapter 10
Table 10.1 Present state of art in different dimension of smart cities.
Chapter 11
Table 11.1 Consensus algorithm alongside the conceptualization.
Table 11.2 Transaction latency.
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Publishers at ScrivenerMartin Scrivener ([email protected])Phillip Carmical ([email protected])
Smart City Infrastructure
The Blockchain Perspective
Edited by
Vishal Kumar
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Bipin Tripathi Kumaon Institute of Technology, Dwarahat, India
Vishal Jain
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
Bharti Sharma
School of Computing, Dehradun Institute of Technology, Dehradun, India
Jyotir Moy Chatterjee
Department of Information Technology, Lord Buddha Education Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal
and
Rakesh Shrestha
Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology, Yonsei University, South Korea
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Preface
The goal of this book is to provide detailed, in-depth information on the state-of-the-art of the architecture and infrastructure used to develop smart cities using the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain security—the key technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The book outlines the theoretical concepts, experimental studies and various smart city applications that create value for inhabitants of urban areas. Several issues that have arisen with the advent of smart cities and novel solutions to resolve these issues are presented. The IoT along with the integration of blockchain and AI provides efficient, safe, secure, and transparent ways to solve different types of social, governmental, and demographic issues in the dynamic urban environment. A top-down strategy is adopted to introduce the architecture, infrastructure, features, and security. The topics covered include the following:
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Chapter 1
starts with the basics of blockchain technology such as the design of blockchain, its elements, and functionalities. It then takes a deep dive into aspects of blockchain technology such as security, various types of consensus mechanisms, and application of blockchain technology in a smart city. Also discussed are the financial application and citizen-government framework, along with security and privacy issues and the future research direction of blockchain.
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Chapter 2
begins with the emergence and concept of the smart city. It discusses how new technologies such as the IoT can be utilized in the health industry, home automation, agriculture, supermarkets, transportation, etc.; and how they are interconnected to become a smart city. Technical innovations used in the smart city provide support for city management and transform natural resources, infrastructure, and intellectual assets into automation.
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Chapter 3
surveys the integration of blockchain and AI from the perspective of the smart city by presenting an in-depth review of various scientific research studies on the basics of blockchain and real-time applications. It then summarizes the applications and opportunities associated with blockchain, and the challenges involved in its use in smart cities.
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Chapter 4
explores the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and AI along with the IoT in smart cities. It focuses on the issues facing increasing populations in urban cities around the globe and discusses the impact of implementing AI to change existing cities into the new smart cities of the future. Moreover, it discusses the applications in smart cities that reduce issues related to areas such as smart grid, agriculture, transportation, smart metering, etc.
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Chapter 5
discusses the use of blockchain in vehicle registration to support the smart city based on 5G technology. It presents a vehicle management system called DriveLoop, which is a simple method that allows car manufacturers, owners, repair companies, and insurance agencies to register and add new entries for cars. A detailed architecture view, algorithm, and working scheme for the DriveLoop application system is presented.
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Chapter 6
discusses the solution to the issue of using excessive computer technology in a modern-day smart city. It gives a detailed description of the design of an adaptive chair and desk based on a fuzzy controller system to maintain a correct posture for humans of different physical stature while sitting and using a computer system excessively. The adaptive system adjusts the chair and desk autonomously based on the quality of data collected and provided to the control system.
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Chapter 7
examines how blockchain technology can disrupt the traditional financial practices of the agro sector by drastically minimizing the financial costs in the international commodity exchange. In addition, blockchain helps in transparent commodity exchange settlement, easy tracing of exchanged trading, specified documents formatting for sales contracts, as well as accelerates the settlement process.
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Chapter 8
delivers a complete secure blockchain-based framework for smart farming based on IoT sensors and the use of an interplanetary file system (IPFS) for storing sensitive information related to farming. Also, blockchain-based smart farming provides farmers with a support system to meet some of their needs.
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Chapter 9
provides a review of different aspects of blockchain technology and highlights its key characteristics, architecture, and taxonomy. Moreover, it also provides insights into the various consensus algorithms and major application areas of blockchain technology.
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Chapter 10
explores the mechanisms that make a city smart as well as explains the different technological dimensions of smart cities. It explains the problem domain along with the various challenges faced during the development of a smart city such as waste management issues, pollution, traffic congestion, outdated homes, huge energy consumption, etc.
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Chapter 11
focuses on the future status of blockchain, which will either revolutionize the digital world and transcend trending technologies, or pose a threat to them becoming obsolete. It explores the keys to making blockchain a debatable benchmark rather than an unfortunate event in the technical podium.
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Chapter 12
provides an overview of blockchain technology along with its detailed architecture and components. It also discusses various types of consensus mechanisms used in blockchain technology.
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Chapter 13
considers the prospects of implementing blockchain technology in the construction industry to help alleviate the current challenges and disruption in supply chain and value chain activities. It also discusses the issues faced by the industry as a result of blockchain still being in its infancy stage and therefore is crippled by limited funding, the unavailability of skilled manpower as well as lack of proper governmental support. It presents strategies for robust, resilient, reliable, less costly, environmentally friendly smart cities by initiating all the stakeholders in private and public sectors to work jointly with the provisional guidelines prescribed by the policy makers.
This book is formatted in such a way as to allow relevant requirements to be analyzed and adopted by the reader. The wide range of topics presented in this book was chosen to provide the reader with a better understanding of smart cities integrated with AI and blockchain and related security issues. We anticipate that the reader will benefit from this approach.
Vishal Kumar Vishal Jain Bharti Sharma Jyotir Moy Chatterjee Rakesh Shrestha
Acknowledgment
I would like to acknowledge the most important people in my life; my grandfather, the late Shri. Gopal Chatterjee, my grandmother, the late Smt. Subhankori Chatterjee, my father, Shri. Aloke Moy Chatterjee, my late mother Ms. Nomita Chatterjee, and my uncle Shri. Moni Moy Chatterjee. The book has been my long-cherished dream which would not have been turned into reality without the support and love of these amazing people. They have continuously encouraged me despite my failing to give them the proper time and attention. I am also grateful to my friends, who have encouraged and blessed this work with their unconditional love and patience.
Jyotir Moy ChatterjeeDepartment of IT Lord Buddha Education Foundation (Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation) Kathmandu, Nepal
1Deep Dive Into Blockchain Technology: Characteristics, Security and Privacy Issues, Challenges, and Future Research Directions
Bhanu Chander
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
Abstract
Since the innovation, blockchain technology has exposed ingenious applications in our daily passing life. From the beginning of crypto-currency to the current smart contract, blockchain is practiced in numerous fields like digital forensics, insurance payments, online micro-payments, healthcare records sharing, and supply chain tracking. Through enlarge the blockchain talent to the Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), we can obtain a provable and noticeable record transaction data offline-to-online data verification and optimize existing network performance. The abovementioned works aimed at expanded safety measures, automatic transaction command, decentralized stands, etc. The incorporation of blockchain technology has modernized the traditional trade due to its distributed ledger characteristic. Every record is secure by rules of cryptography which makes it more secure and impregnable. Therefore, blockchain can modify the way we buy and sell, how we intermingle with the government, and prove the legitimacy of everything from property names to natural fresh vegetables.
In recent times, the rapid expansion in urbanization population causes various cost-effective and environmental issues, influencing people’s living circumstances and class of life. The thought of a smart city that developed with the rise of IoT brings the ability to solve urban issues. Information and Communication Technology (ICT), IoTs, and WSNs play a vital part in executing smart cities. Blockchain has several good creations like pseudonymity, trust-free, intelligibility, democratic state, computerization, decentralization, and safety measures. These creations of blockchain useful to progress smart city services then endorse the expansion of smart cities. On the other hand, to use blockchain efficiently, it must consider security and privacy portions.
This chapter presents the exceptional safety as well as privacy sides of blockchain. Mainly, we present a detailed explanation of the background work of blockchain and consensus methods. After that, we shifted focus to blockchain integration with smart city development, challenges, and applications. Further, we review common security attacks on blockchain and security improvement solutions and the directions for future research.
Keywords: Blockchain, smart city, security, privacy, Internet of Things
1.1 Introduction
Blockchain has gained tremendous popularity in recent times because of its fundamental properties and peer-to-peer operations. Blockchain theory was the future of well-known researcher Santoshi Nakamotos in 2008 with Bitcoin crypto-currency innovation. More than 2,500 crypto-currencies exist, but the authentic utilization of Bitcoin is still not explored effusively. Various issues like secure document transferring, anti-money laundering, decentralization, and authorized and unauthorized mining actions are near related to Bitcoin [1–5]. The Bitcoin system model nearly takes 5 to 8 minutes for the mining process and validation of the transaction, which plays a crucial role in numerous appliances such as industry, economics, supply chain management, healthcare, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In present situations, digital information streams from one-end to a new dissimilar end via an unauthorized transmission channel. Where securities models and privacy are the two significant worries in any transaction, blockchain produces a protected peer-to-peer broadcast. Moreover, all the transactions of blockchain publicly accessible for analyzing although none can amend the transaction one time it is recorded [1–6].
Blockchain is a scattered data catalog that monitors an emergent directory of transaction reports with systematizing them into a hierarchical series of blocks because of database management. Coming to safety potential, blockchain builds and maintains with peer-to-peer overlie setup and secured with intellectual, decentralized exploitation of cryptography techniques. Experts forecasted that blockchain-related annual revenue would reach approximately 22 billion dollars at the end of 2030, with an annual growth rate of 29.6%. Numerous distinguished organizations like Accenture, Cisco, Morgan Stanley, Google, Citibank, Ali baba, IBM and IT vendors, financial consultancies, and internet giants designed and developed a high-standard research laboratory to make a capital layout blockchain knowledge [3–6]. Moreover, blockchain with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and big data are considered the heart of computing skills for the upcoming generation financial inducts. A few governments have released methodological reports along with white papers on blockchain utilization for a positive approach. Some of them like the European Central Bank unconfined credentials on distributed ledger expertise, and the UK government liberated a fresh testimony that illustrates the outlook of distributed ledger technology. The Chinese administration liberated white papers on the blockchain tools besides improvement in China; the USA builds an authorized and authoritarian background for blockchain knowledge development. In academe, several documents are available on blockchain in the earlier period, consist of a dozen of the article, and provide information on safety then secrecy risks of blockchain. Furthermore, most of the safety then secrecy risk–based articles of blockchain-focused on uncovering attacks that suffer blockchain, and some target specific proposals for employing some current countermeasure adjacent to a subset of various attacks. Among these, very few attempts describe a complete investigation of the safety then confidentiality characteristics of blockchain along with different protocol implementation methods [2–8].
1.2 Blockchain Preliminaries
1.2.1 Functioning of Blockchain
Blockchain is a collection of heterogeneous distributed networks. It considers as a unique technology of this century among other famous innovations because of its elements like crypto techniques, consensus algorithms, and public ledger; working procedure of blockchain consists of various styles, among those we mentioned some of them: customer, client, or node who desire to make a transaction will record and broadcasts the data to the appropriate setup, next to the receiver or the node who interest to receive the data validate the genuineness of data received, and after validation stores data in a block inside the network, every node or the customer in the network authorize the transaction through implementing the PoW or else PoS algorithms which need the validation, and finally, the network that utilized the consensus models will be stored into the block and connected to the blockchain list. Then, every single node in the setup acknowledges the relevant block and then enlarges the chain position on block.
1.2.2 Design of Blockchain
The expansion of the blockchain system will make tremendous changes and impact approximately every industrial, educational, and scientific field in the coming days. In particular, financial transactions are progressing in inventive ways, making it exceptionally important for one and all to understand the blockchain mechanism’s architecture and working style. Blockchain blocks are continuously enhance, secure with crypto techniques [6–10]. Here, each block holds a crypto-based hash value of the preceding block, a timestamp, along with transaction info.
In the design of blockchain, information or records are professional along with a related listing of transaction blocks well-maintained in a balanced catalog in the pattern of smooth files. Each block, linked with the preceding block, the initial block entitled the source block. The blockchain database visualized as a good stack, blocks mounded on the peak of one another, finished as the initial block as the stack’s base. Every block of blockchain authorized with cryptography has a function by implementing the SHA-256 algorithm and stored in the block’s header. One parent block can hold multiple children block; every child block encloses some parent hash value. The characteristics of child blocks purely depend on the parent block’s identity and properties. This procedure prolongs until getting each grandchild blocks [6–12]. The cascade consequences confirm that, just once a block has several productions, it cannot interfere with all the successive blocks’ forceful recalculations. For more understanding, we mentioned some ingredients with more explanations [4–16].
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Data:
In blockchain, data stored in the database mostly depend on the respective services and applications, like recording the transmission particulars and banking with IoT. They were storing if data performed peer-to-peer, cloud formation, etc.
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Hash:
In the hash function, we can give any length message as input, but it produces unique predetermined length output. If any assailant made changes in the message, then the output comes out entirely differently. For example, if anyone client makes an effort to modify the info kept in a block, then afterward, the block shows an entirely different hash value. To avoid this kind of situation, there must be an assurance that minors of the network must have the knowledge prepared by revising the ledger replicate of total abusers. This will surely boost the reliability of info kept in the blockchain.
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Timestamp:
For every transaction, it is compulsory to note the time once the block is shaped. Timestamping is a technique employed to trail or to follow the formation or else adapt the period of a certificate in a safe mode. This kind of procedure turns into a vital tool in the corporate business world. Moreover, blockchain authorizes only the concerned parties to recognize the source and then accessibility of a certificate/file on a specific day and occasion.
iv. Moreover, the data contains nonce and digital signatures; each customer holds both public/private keys. Digital signature restrains both keys for signing (private key reserved, sign-on, transaction data) and verification (public key for validation and decrypt the data) phase. Nonce value with 4-byte strength utilized for message authentication.
1.2.3 Blockchain Elements
Blockchain collects different techniques like mathematical methods, algorithms, cryptography protocols, and economic standards. It merges every part of end-to-end networking plus distributed consensus algorithm to resolve the management issues from a long-established scattered database. As we mentioned earlier, blockchain contains numerous elements; out of them here, we discussed some important points below [4–10, 12–18].
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Decentralization:
Decentralization can distribute functions and controls from a centralized authority to every entity that is associated. In the blockchain, each blockchain client provides a replica of the transaction record; moreover, a new block is implanted for the justification of transaction by the clients who are part of the blockchain structure.
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Consensus model:
The inclusion of consensus models supports maintaining the purity of data recorded on the blockchain. In general, a consensus protocol contains three possessions; depend on applicability and good organization. Those are fault tolerance—a consensus procedure offers resilience while reviving to a failure not contributing to consensus. Safety—It must be safe and sound, reliable, and every node must produce a similar output legally binding under the protocol regulations; Liveness—Protocol must assure every non-faulty node to yield a value.
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Transparent:
For explicit transactions, a blockchain scheme after a specific time (depend on application) verifies itself to make self-audit the eco-system of a digital price that resolves communications that occur in specifically mentioned time breaks. In a blockchain, the collected works of these transactions are acknowledged as block. As a result, it shows the intelligibility and incapability of frauds are engendered.
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Open source:
As a decentralized structure blockchain kind, closed-source appliance trust that the appliance is purely working as decentralized then data not be contacted from a central basis. Blockchain-based locked appliances act as a hurdle to approval by customers. However, revulsion to a locked network was not traceable when the appliance plan to collect, hold and transmit customer endowments. Opensourcing, a distributed appliance, alters the formation of business performances who utilized to support the Internet as the general denominator.
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Identity and access:
In any network, identity and access are the two central pillars to succeed. Like in a blockchain, identity and access are associated with three major public, private, and consortium standards. A public or permission less blockchain proposed to eliminate the middleman at the same time maintains the security high. Private or permission blockchain restricts the customers from holding authority and justification of blockchain restrictions while creating smart contracts. The proposal designed for private blockchain endows with the effectiveness and seclusion of transactions. Last, consortium blockchain, moderately private, also allows a few determined discriminating nodes to have complete control.
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Autonomy:
The central part of a blockchain is to exchange the trust from one authority to another authority exclusive of any indication. Every entity of the blockchain arrangement securely updates and transmits information. The transaction trace plus smart contract particulars are kept as blocks in the blockchain.
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Immutability:
In any financial transaction, immutability is one of the major elements, which means unchanged over time. Just once, any kind of info noted in a block of the blockchain never alters after record. This will extremely helpful for data auditing, easily prove that the data is safe and sound, proficient, and not interfere or distorted. Moreover, in the recipient end, data is confident, genuine, and untouched.
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Anonymity:
Anonymity is an entity in the blockchain address of a miner that is indispensable for this aspect, and no other aspect is requisite; consequential in anonymity determine trust-related concerns. In a communication structure, the anonymity set can be alienated into two sets: the dispatcher then the receiver.
1.3 Key Technologies of Blockchain
Time moves blockchain, gaining more and more attention from various domains. In general, blockchain associates with blocks scattered more than several peer nodes and then employed in an unnamed location. Here, every block is enclosed with transaction data, preceding blocks hash values along with its hash. In a blockchain, the element distributed ledger is acknowledged as a blockchain that accumulates data designed in tamper-proof formation. An authorized network makes an equivalent carbon copy of the ledger that executes all blockchain transactions without any additional influence.
Additionally, a smart contract program is a design that runs inside the blockchain platform and executes definite roles. Cryptography models are employed to make sure the reliability of data. Another element of system management endows with function creation modification and monitoring mechanisms in the scheme. At last, the ingredient of scheme mixing is utilized to incorporate the blockchain scheme through outside parties.
Here, we discussed some of the vital technologies that influence blockchain utilization in the near future [2–8, 11–18].
1.3.1 Distributed Ledger
It works as data storage space of collected data from different nodes across the peer-to-peer setup, and every participated node holds a carbon copy of identical data. Blockchain is a decentralized structure, so there are no federal supervisors; hence the data reliability is maintained with the consensus models to ensure the data duplications’ truthfulness on every dependent node. Several nodes must execute through a consensus model to accomplish an agreement to commit to the order of transactions. In particular, a distributed ledger is an appended-only data storeroom, plus the transaction modernizes actions traced at every entity node in an ungraceful approach.
1.3.2 Cryptography
In any decentralized structure data, reliability is a fundamental constraint; blockchain is one of the decentralized techniques designed and planned in an untrusted atmosphere. Cryptography models are the essential explanations to ensure the integrity and detection of tamper-proofs—distinct varieties of cryptography models like symmetric, asymmetric, and zeroknowledge testimonies extensively utilized in blockchain technology. The data truthfulness sheltered through the hash tree with hash indicators. In blockchain structures, only the existing worldwide status is preserved, and long-ago states’ records can only attain via walking throughout the block transaction records. Hash or Merkel trees permit well-organized and safe, and sound authentication of the distributed ledger. To make sure a block cannot be tainted once it is attached to the ledger, any block modification will affect all subsequent blocks’ termination.
1.3.3 Consensus
As we mentioned, earlier blockchain technology works exclusive of any federal controller. Hence, to keep the distributed ledger’s reliability, blockchain desires to approach a consensus on the block transaction records. The consensus is a self-motivated mode of achievement and concord in a set. In PoW procedure, a cryptanalytic enigma has to decipher to append a block to the blockchain. This involves a massive quantity of energy plus computational handling. Hence, guarantees evade the Byzantine attack. Ethereum is a special kind of consensus algorithm, which changes the algorithm for a proficient protocol. Coming to PoS practice, if a node needs to insert a block to the chain, it will authorize the block through employing a stake on it. In the PoW procedure, every node continuously working on the longer chain since it is only a squander of computation power employed on the shorter chain. BitShare is an enhanced edition of PoS; DPoS consensus trusts on the authority of validator with more proficient and elastic evaluates with PoS. Paxos is a group of consensus practices that build a variety of trade-offs among hypotheses regarding the processors, contributors, and messages in a particular scheme.
1.3.4 Smart Contracts
Smart contracts (SM) are generated with computer codes then store simulated in the blockchain scheme; furthermore, it could be useful in ledger procedures like money transmit and service delivery. Mostly, smart contracts effectively assist in translucent, conflict-free, incontrovertible, and quicker automatic secure transactions without any arbitrator. A few blockchain proposals only afford an imperfect set of patterns to mark contract drafts like Bitcoin. Several other proposals maintain a more ample set of codes. Ethereum presents a Turing machine with total code for identifying uninformed computation. A few proposals permit SM codes to run in their inhabitant runtimes, whereas further proposals generate virtual machines for implementing agreement-type codes.
1.3.5 Benchmarks
The efficient performance of blockchain is one of the critical characteristics of the blockchain platform. There are no authenticated universal tools with principles, which present performance estimation for different blockchain results. The hyperledger cluster prepares frequent attempts in defining the performance scale of blockchain. Hyperledger caliper describes the most crucial performance signs like transaction latency and resource exploitation.
1.4 Consensus Algorithms of Blockchain
In the blockchain, consensus algorithms implement as a group-based set of rules for a group’s dynamic agreement. Usually, in group models, we go for a voting majority for a mutual agreement. This consensus emphasizes the entire group, for the intention to everyone benefit and realize a consensus [8–14]. However, the difficulty is actively making or receiving a consensus in grouping relies on the group’s synchronization. Such synchronized consensus may be tamper in the attendance of malevolent actors as well as flawed processes. For instance, awful actors covertly form contradictory messages to formulate group members who are unsuccessful in agreeing, which breaks down the group’s value to synchronize its trials.
Below we mentioned some well-known consensus algorithms for reader understanding [4–12, 22–28, 36–42, 46–50].
1.4.1 Proof of Work (PoW)
PoW-based consensus algorithms are a kind of fiscal measure to deject the outbreaks of DoS, spams that increase the computing process time. In the blockchain, high priority node will elect to record the transactions by selecting random users or nodes, leading to various vulnerable attacks. Also, nodes wish to publish a block with transaction details, which needs vast computational energy for selection, validation of random users, or nodes. In PoW, nodes that estimate hash principles described as miners. Each node in the setup analyzes the hash rate of the block header, which holds a nonce. Then, miners utilize these values to create distinct hash values; just once the target value is reached by a node, it distributes the calculated block to other nodes to verify the hash value’s precision. If a block is legitimate, then added nodes include this newest authorized block to their blockchain. The procedure of scheming the hash standards is acknowledged as mining. In PoW, the longest chain is considered trustworthy and accurate, but to build that longest chain will cost high computational power; hence, to overcome this problem, some consensus employs other models to preserve the energy resources.
From the literature, PoW has two excellent characteristics: It must be complicated and time-consuming in favor of every entity to make a testimony that convenes particular necessities. It should be quick plus straightforward for others to validate the testimony in terms of its precision. For a block to be legitimate in the blockchain, a miner must calculate the hash-value, which is fewer than or equivalent to the existing objective, then extant its explanation to the setup for authentication through additional nodes. The twin assets of PoW guarantee that it is though then time-intense to discover the correct nonce for the suitable hash objective; so far, it is effortless besides straightforward to legalize the hash product no tamper happened.
1.4.2 Proof of Stake (PoS)
PoSs are broadly applied consensus algorithms in blockchain appliances; it states that an abuser or client can mine or else authorize transactions in a block, depend on the number of abusers or clients. Protocol believes that clients who have more cash are less likely to outburst the setup. Here, blockchain trails on various clients or miners if they hold high crypto-currency named a validator. All validated applicants then carry the procedure of generating and authenticating a new block. The PoS algorithm has numerous tangs, depend on the ways the rewards are consigned. Some of them are chain-based PoS—where a validator is preferred at a random method and a time slot for a new block is created by the authority. Hence, based on time, many blocks unite to a solitary emergent chain. Previous editions of chain-based PoS models build with naïve technique since rewards are utilized to produce blocks with no penalties, pushing them to endure nothing at stake issues. In BFT-style PoS, miners are arbitrarily legalized to advise an original block’s design, but block’s approval made by the multi-round voting method. The PoS characterizes different kinds of distributed consensus protocols for undertaking the confidentiality, accessibility, and privacy properties of public blockchain models.
1.4.3 BFT-Based Consensus Algorithms
The major reason behind the BFT algorithm’s innovation was its tolerance potentiality of a system in opposition to the BGP. For a more detailed explanation, consider a group of nodes where each node grasps a unique initial value. Here, every node must follow the same mind behavior by accepting a consensus procedure’s solitary cost. In such a scheme, an agreement will reach with bulk nodes that consider truthful nodes that thoroughly follow the protocol instructions; still, some nodes molest, deviate from the protocol. This situation is acknowledged as Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT). We know that long-established distributed computing arrangement controls central authorities, and they conclude what step has to be taken when Byzantine failure arises. The blockchain is a decentralized scheme maintained with a distributed ledger where every node holds the chain or block’s replica. For every applicant block, the authentication is prepared by having the system harmony via the digital signatures of an adequate amount of nodes. Only those applicant blocks the system confirms those can be linked to the blockchain. To avoid Byzantine faults, blockchain must apply PoW and PoS consensus models to approve transactions, which turns blockchain more powerful and efficient. However, PoW or PoS is not always a perfect key to deal with BFT issues. Identifying the working procedure of BFT will play a key role in applying blockchain with efficient appliance results. Also, open consensus algorithms and protocols planned on behalf of the Byzantine fault trouble might not be sufficient when functional to additional blockchain appliances.
In 1982, well-known persons like Lamport, Pease, and Shostak introduced the leading solution to resolve BFT misconceptions and prevent associated mistakes. Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov anticipated the PBFT model for realistic BFT in 1999 for the Byzantine state mechanism’s high-performance reproduction. AlgoRAND and Honey Badger BFT are two exceptional works that describe various concepts of BFT.
1.4.4 Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT)
PBFT is a simulated version shaped to continue Byzantine faults. Specifically, to tolerate the Byzantine fault, we must realize the working style of Byzantine issues illustrated as an agreement issue. Byzantine trouble gets even more composite by continuing unfaithful nodes which might cast a take part in an election for a trivial stratagem. In PBFT protocol, each node recognized by additional nodes in the setup can inquiry with remained. Delegated BFT (dBFT) is a consensus model similar to PBFT, but, in dBFT, a cluster of specialized nodes nominated to sign dealings as different to arbitrary nodes. The justification of a transmission operation can be done in three steps: In the first step, validators specify the reason for transmission of a block when it gains 2/3 votes from the setup. In the second step or pre-commit phase, validators decide to pre-commit on block and transaction deal. Just once, block obtains 2/3 votes for the pre-commit stride when it come in the assigned phase, which is the third step. Here, a node legalizes a block or transaction plus transmits a consign for it.
1.4.5 Sleepy Consensus
The sleepy consensus model builds on the sleepy model concept, where participate or nodes swing in both ways online (awake) and offline (sleep) in the protocol implementation. It is demonstrated to be flexible when the truthful contributors are the mainstream. This algorithm’s most important initiative is to recognize the Bitcoin. But sleepy consensus cannot endure effort in the box when an unfair online group of actors is mainstream.
1.4.6 Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET)
PoET brings low computation with justification, designed by intel via leveraging SGX, a trusted computing policy. In this algorithm, each node waits for the threshold period; here, the node which finishes the threshold time is allowed to generate a new block. The PoET consensus is required to guarantee two key features: First, the joining nodes legitimately decide on a time that is sure arbitrary plus not a shorter interval. Second, the frontrunner concluded the waiting time. However, the issue is SGX is not a reliable, trusted computing skill. Two features proposed to overcome this issue: varying the probability distribution and executing statistical analysis to refuse a few blocks engender by a specific portion of nodes.
1.4.7 Proof of Authority (PoA)
Compare to other mentioned consensus algorithms, PoA sustains fast transactions. The main objective of PoA was that barely validators have the fundamental right to commend the contracts along with new-fangled blocks. A node becomes a validator only when the node receives a high reputation score. Compared to other PoS and Pow, PoA is more vigorous because validators authenticate every transaction or contract with high integrity. If not, nodes are attached with negative status. More importantly, a solitary validator cannot grant any two successive blocks, preventing confidence from being central.
1.4.8 Proof of Reputation (PoR)
PoR considers as an expansion of PoA, which is newly promoted by various research communities. In PoR, reputation is calculated with pre-arranged rules; moreover, different variations and constraints are fine-tuned for its best performances. Once the node establishes a reputation with reliable verification, it turns to an authoritative node.
1.4.9 Deputized Proof of Stake (DPoS)
DPoS is an extension of PoS, aimed to accomplish a distributed consensus in a crypto-currency scheme. It is different from PoS script; valuators of the crypto scheme vote for allot to authenticate then practice a deal in revisit for transaction charges, which is entirely dissimilar PoS where stakeholders authenticate then perform a contract to produce recompences along with transaction charges. Compared to other algorithms, the DPoS is the quickest, prolific, proficient, decentralized, and adaptable consensus replica. Deterministic collection of block producers’ permits contacts will be complete typically in one second. DPoS procedure engages the utilization of trusted sub-networks inside a superior system in which the nodes can be separated into a server or the customer.
1.4.10 SCP Design
SCP is technically reliable Byzantine consensus practice for blockchain and its respective contracts with a contract or blocks in terms of epochs, here, every epoch makes a target then decision based on available rules. The principle idea of SCP efficiently utilizes the existing computational power. It separates existed computational powers into sub-groups, where every group works on an existing algorithm to agree on a solitary result. In SCP designed algorithm, the processor completes five phases in every epoch; in the first step, with the help of the local computation virtual committee identifies a processor. In the second step, processors try to recognize remained processors implicated; in the third step, processors execute on an authenticated procedure to consent on a value. In the fourth step, final consensus algorithm validation and ending value from each spread. In the fifth step, distribute random generation for virtually independent random assessment.
1.5 Internet of Things and Blockchain
1.5.1 Internet of Things
The invention of the IoT impacts promotes our daily life than ever before. In the coming years, kitchen applications, utility materials, thermostats, televisions, cars, smart phones, intra-body sensors, and approximately everything connects with the internet then reachable from anytime, anywhere on the globe. The rising ease that IoT brought to the 19th century is unmatchable and uncomparable. Moreover, it continuously improvising every human segment, manufacturing starts from healthcare, smart home, e-healthcare, along with smart city to surveillance, data mining, intelligent transport, and manufacturing [6–8]. Scientists and researchers highly focused on addressing IoTs computation and communication scalability concerns from the past few years. Undoubtedly these two concerns are most important for the success of IoTs and should carefully explore. Both IoT safety and confidentiality are vital research actions to be conquered [10–16].
Up-to-date IoT systems are implemented with a central-based architecture and client-server-based access model. IoT dealings like data, documents, and instructions among IoT entities assigned to monumental, federal service providers. However, eventually, IoT is vulnerable to various privacy as well as security problems. In particular, federal and centralized service providers use IoT data intelligently; some of the centralized data gathering systems can rendering the method of hacking by malevolent activities, with awful consequences for citizens [18–28]. One more dispute is the authentication of IoT units, which is mostly employed naturally with limited supervision. If these issues not appropriately answered, there was a chance to create hard active and passive attacks.
The amalgamation of blockchain along with IoT has disruptive potential and assists the IoT’s development into our culture through providing subsequent essential rewards:
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Anonymity:
An IoT entity with the inclusion of blockchain with various secure keys, but it does not expose entities real characteristics and individuality.
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Decentralization:
Long-established centralized methods need each operation must be legalized from end to end with a centralized model, which unavoidably transforms into a performance block. In opposition, third-party confirmation is not required in the blockchain because consensus processes preserve data reliability.
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Non-repudiation:
It guarantees that the dealings can be authorized then illogical dealings not confessed—it is almost intolerable to remove any transactions once integrated into the blockchain.
While the blockchain might appear as per a solution to the IoT’s safety as well as privacy problems, but still numerous researches detect various challenges while employing IoT into the real-world. Greatest part of the research works states blockchain as an undeniable, incontestable data composition from literature. Still, it is theoretically unfocused to describe it as indisputable or not able to be forfeited. If truth be told, then there are patterns where the blockchain entries have been altering after attacks or misconduct of the system/network. As mentioned in the introduction section, blockchain technology has been broadly employed in various services like digital forensics, online micro-payments and insurance payments, supply chain management, and health-management documentation sharing [6–16]. By enlarging the blockchain skill to the IoTs, we can get a certifiable and distinguishable IoT system. Promising research studies in IoT appliances take advantage of blockchain skill to testimony transaction data, optimize existing method performance, and assemble next-generation structures, moreover, giving additional safety, regular transaction supervision, decentralized proposals, offline-to-online data confirmation, and many more.
IoT networks allocate direct communications as well as interaction among devices over the internet. At the end of 2025, the number of IoT (smart mobiles, vehicles, smart city, home applications, and various indoor and outdoor sensors) devices will reach above 25 billion. With numerous devices, conventional IoT appliances face contests in several points like information security, confidentiality, and healthiness. Blockchain affords a handy, well-located explanation to deal with many limits of conventional IoT appliances. Here, blockchain guarantees IoT data integrity, not including any third-party, and saves bandwidth and computational supremacy of IoT objects. Furthermore, blockchain can endow with a safe and sound outline aimed at IoT setup to send sensitive raw data without any centralized server [12–18].
1.5.2 IoT Blockchain
IoT with blockchain inclusion systems personalized and optimized to allocate IoT appliances. As we discussed earlier sections, IoT is employed in various real-time applications, but most of them prone to various attacks and issues. To moderate these tricky things, blockchain can be utilized to offer superior security along with reliability for time-honored IoT functions. Furthermore, the inclusion of blockchain into IoT is not an easy task because limitations of IoT devices, some of them are power consumption, task scheduling, and computational capabilities. To handle these concerns, many stabs to assume blockchain in IoT appliance [2–8].
Blockchain assumes various IoT appliances; however, there is a particular focus on digital payments, data storage, and smart contracts. Digital payment is the utmost applicable domain for blockchain. Although it primarily works on a scattered system maintained in high-performance machineries, superior optimization is now maintained by significant blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which are applied for objects/ things with inconsequential computation energy like smart phones, tabs, and pocket PCs.
1.5.3 Up-to-Date Tendency in IoT Blockchain Progress
Recent developments in various technologies boost the progression of IoT and blockchain and its continuous revolution. The recent trend is principally revealed in four characteristics: popularity, range of applications, development of underlying technology, and business models [4–14].
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Popularity:
From the last few years, the incorporation of IoT with blockchain appliances proliferating. In the early days, IoT applied to specific domains like industrial manufacturing and transportations. However, as time passes, many emergent businesses converted to the movement of IoT like digitalization, smart home, E-healthcare, and then smart city. Dissimilar brands of consensus processes offered, and then, basic upgrading has planned for IoT blockchains.
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Range of Applications:
From the invention, blockchain was continuously employed in various domains; at the start, blockchain applied for decentralized currency structures. Bitcoin was foremost considered to make a decentralized currency scheme exclusive of any administration. With the expansion of blockchain expertise, smart contracts in Ethereum have facilitated a more comprehensive range of appliances other than economic use. The merger of IoT into blockchain schemes affords extra capacities for appliances. Logistics businesses spotlight employing blockchain to execute product tracking: Computer hardware and power-driven manufactured goods trades exploit blockchain to improve the interface among humans with IoT devices. Power industries exploit blockchain to execute power distribution then power transaction dealings.
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Expansion of Basic Technology:
The immediate progression of several principal technologies speedy development of IoT and Blockchain. IoT device connectivity, communiqué expertise like LoRa, LoWPRA, NB-IoT, and 5G communications with IoT devices improved quickly. To meet different blockchain appliance requirements, recently designed structures must be outfitted with optimization techniques. Public chains like IOTA and EOS with digital signatures resolve the low transaction rate difficulty in long-established accomplishments.
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Business Models:
Many academic, industrial, insurance, and science-based companies are searching for possible chances for integrating blockchain practices in their business models to boost business turnover. But, the blockchain structure performance might rigorously distress the sustained companies’ productions, e.g., how much rapidly the consensus procedure legalizes dealings, which justify further concentration when manipulative industrialized appliances.
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Resource Limitations:
Usually, blockchain consumes high computational power, channel frequency with little delay. Extreme part of IoT smart devices outfitted with uncomplicated hardware setups with deficient processing, computational power. So, it is not an easy task for IoT strategies to execute various mining jobs of blockchain. Besides, most blockchain appliances employ PoW as their basic consensus algorithm, which requires high computation energy. On the other hand, blockchain is required to regularly present data encryption, but the encryption rate plus time will be dissimilar since dissimilar IoT strategies have dissimilar computational energy.
vi. Furthermore, other progressions, constancy models, and then regular testing need massive processing power, which excesses IoT devices’ low power ability. Furthermore, blockchain’s consensus practice involves the transformations of information among nodes regularly to reach an agreement to preserve blockchain’s accuracy and create novel blocks. This practice needs high bandwidth with little latency.
