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Block Chain and IoT Architecture

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Abstract

From its inception, the Internet of Things (IoT) has consisted of integrated smart devices, which can lead to decentralized equipment and programming platforms using a common foundation. Disadvantages of this foundation include cloud server security costs, powerless point for assisting time-sensitive IoT applications, low interoperability, single points of failure, and insurance issues. Incorporating Blockchain into IoT can help to design an appropriate decentralization of the IoT platform, with advantages including decrease for the measure of realities moved, improved security and privacy, and extra purposeful and self-continuing tasks. In this chapter, we discuss the integration of block chain into IoT using nearby half breed square chain its hybrid IoT design. Block chain engineering can scale a large number of IoT devices. In addition, they can be included in a Blockchain coordinate with a high volume of exchanges. In such hybrid engineering, IoT structures are combined with Blockchain and IoT design. Hybrid engineering uses both proof of work (PoW) Blockchains and Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) conventions. PoW Blockchains increase compatibility among numerous IoT gadgets on the Blockchain. At that point, hybrid IoT uses a BFT between the connector systems to achieve interoperability among the secondary Blockchains.

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Internet of Things
  • BFT
  • Proof of work (PoW)
  • Proof of stake (PoS)
  • SPOF
  • Membership services provider (MSP)
  • SLAAC
  • Miners
  • Hybrid engineering

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Chhabra, S., Mor, P., Mahdi, H.F., Choudhury, T. (2021). Block Chain and IoT Architecture. In: Choudhury, T., Khanna, A., Toe, T.T., Khurana, M., Gia Nhu, N. (eds) Blockchain Applications in IoT Ecosystem. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65691-1_2

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