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Blockchain for Security Issues of Internet of Things (IoT)

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Principles of Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem: Insight Paradigm

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Today in the data driven world, technology has amazed us and changed our life completely. Internet of Things (IoT) has made our life easy by making conventional devices like air conditioner, mobile phones etc. autonomous and smart by revolutionizing the machine to machine communication. IoT is able to represent the real world digitally through the deployment of smart applications in various domains. These applications generate enormous amounts of data and also require internet connectivity all the time for communication between the devices. As the data is communicated via wireless networks, the major challenge lies in the domain of security such as data confidentiality, data reliability, data authentication, privacy etc. Blockchain can be the missing link for settling privacy, and reliability issues of IoT. The connected devices and their communications can be tracked and stored on the tamper-proof ledger of blockchain to ensure reliability and data security of IoT network.

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Sapra, R., Dhaliwal, P. (2020). Blockchain for Security Issues of Internet of Things (IoT). In: Peng, SL., Pal, S., Huang, L. (eds) Principles of Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem: Insight Paradigm. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 174. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33596-0_24

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