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A Systematic Review for Privacy-Preserving Challenges of Blockchain-Based IoT Networks

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Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023, Volume 1 (FTC 2023)

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Abstract

Blockchain-based distributed ledger technology is a data management technology that stores a time-ordered set of transactions to verify all transactions without third-party organizations acting as authorities. Thus, it supplies privacy, integrity, and confidentiality due to its central attributes by implementing different strategies such as encryption, anonymization, and private contracts. This technology can develop decentralized and data-intensive applications that run on many devices, maintaining users’ privacy. Given these advantages, several studies have been conducted on improving privacy issues through the use of blockchain technology. As IoT networks still face significant privacy obstacles due to IoT big data volume, velocity, variety, and value With their exponential growth, some researchers have suggested overcoming them with decentralized blockchain solutions. This research aims to systematically review the current approaches to blockchain applications for preserving privacy in IoT, in order to highlight challenges, difficulties, and future research paths.

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    The (presumed) pseudonym used for the person or people who developed bitcoin. The details of this identity have never been established.

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    This property is enforced through the accumulating mathematical effort required to make changes to an increasingly long hashed chain. In practice, a block must have several blocks that depend upon it to make it un-modifiable.

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    The formation of a longitudinal chain of transactions implies that if a continued identity is exposed at any point in the chain, it is exposed at every point.

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    Several studies provide accounts of a mechanism but no detail or implementation.

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  1. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

    Mnar Alnaghes & Nickolas Falkner

  2. Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, China

    Hong Shen

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Alnaghes, M., Falkner, N., Shen, H. (2023). A Systematic Review for Privacy-Preserving Challenges of Blockchain-Based IoT Networks. In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023, Volume 1. FTC 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 813. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47454-5_32

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