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Safeguarding IoT: Harnessing Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Robust Security

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Proceedings of Data Analytics and Management (ICDAM 2023)

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With the emergence of Internet of Things, massive amount of data is produced, processed, propagated, and stored each and everyday. These IoT devices are built only to fulfill the aimed requirement with very limited resources. As a result, their security and privacy are not prioritized. Implementing any solution for the privacy and security issues of IoT devices is a challenging and crucial job with such limited resources. However, with the development of blockchain technology, incorporating security methods into IoT systems is no longer an unattainable goal. We conducted multiple experiments in this research to determine that Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (pBFT) is the best suitable technique for protecting IoT systems. The blockchain concept is used with pBFT in the same way that Zilliqa and Hyperledger are used for IoT security. As a result, by identifying and preventing security breaches with the aforementioned algorithm, data integrity, and authenticity will be maintained.

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  1. Department of CS&IT, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India

    Nadiya Zafar & Jameel Ahamed

  2. Department of CSE, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Ashish Khanna

  3. Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, South Wales, UK

    Shaily Jain

  4. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Zeeshan Ali

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Zafar, N., Khanna, A., Jain, S., Ali, Z., Ahamed, J. (2024). Safeguarding IoT: Harnessing Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Robust Security. In: Swaroop, A., Polkowski, Z., Correia, S.D., Virdee, B. (eds) Proceedings of Data Analytics and Management. ICDAM 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 785. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6544-1_22

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