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Blockchains for Smart Cities: A Survey

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Security in Smart Cities: Models, Applications, and Challenges

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Blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) play significant role in the current modern applications in smart cities. By applying blockchain technologies, systems gain a full access to benefits for decentralized applications, and security of distributed ledger technologies which includes consensus algorithms and smart contracts. This paper presents a survey of blockchain technologies and their applications in smart cities. It shows how it increases security, performance, and reduce cost of systems in smart cities. It also provides a high-level explanation of what is blockchain, DLT, and what are consensus algorithms? And how they can be used? In this paper an evaluation also done for some selected researches. These researches were reviewed, summarized, and analyzed, then evaluated based on specific criteria. This paper also proposes a sample architecture for one example of how blockchain can be used in this example in smart cities.

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  1. Landmark Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Ahmed G. Ghandour

  2. Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Mohamed Elhoseny

  3. The Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Cairo, Egypt

    Mohamed Elhoseny

  4. Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

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  1. Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  2. Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Dakahlia, Egypt

    Mohamed Elhoseny

  3. Department of Computer Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro Campus, Statesboro, GA, USA

    Syed Hassan Ahmed

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna University Campus, Patna, Bihar, India

    Amit Kumar Singh

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Ghandour, A.G., Elhoseny, M., Hassanien, A.E. (2019). Blockchains for Smart Cities: A Survey. In: Hassanien, A., Elhoseny, M., Ahmed, S., Singh, A. (eds) Security in Smart Cities: Models, Applications, and Challenges. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01560-2_9

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