Privacy and Security in Blockchain-Based Internet of Things (IoT)
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2022) | Viewed by 17537
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects multiple objects and provides convenient services in various fields through the internet, including healthcare, smart farm, smart home, smart grid, and so on. Thus, it has received interest in a range of fields of academia and industry. However, proactive actions are needed to resolve abnormal behaviors and bottlenecks because IoT technologies generate massive amounts of data from hundreds of thousands of sensors integrated into smart objects. Moreover, traditional IoT systems have confronted technical challenges: (i) security and privacy, (ii) interoperability across diverse IoT domains, and (iii) efficiency for constrained resources.
Blockchain technology is considered a promising solution to resolve the technical challenges of traditional systems, ensuring the decentralization, immutability, transparency, and integrity of information by sharing records with multiple distributed nodes. However, there are still technical problems to be solved before applying it in real life.
Thus, this Special Issue (SI) of Electronics solicits innovative and robust cryptographic techniques and security protocols that are suitable for IoT environments with blockchain technology. It also provides an opportunity for discussions to explore new challenges and frontiers in the various application fields of IoT security and privacy under blockchain technologies.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Security and privacy in IoT
- Decentralized IoT architecture
- Privacy-preserving systems with smart contracts
- IoT security using zero-knowledge proof
- Cryptographic protocols for IoT
- IoT systems using decentralized identifier (DID) technologies
Dr. KiSung Park
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cryptographic protocols
- blockchain
- decentralized identifiers
- zero-knowledge proof
- security and privacy
- internet of things