Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT)
Over the last few years, there has been a great interest in the Internet of Things (IoT). This is mainly because the IoT interacts directly with people's everyday lives in critical applications, such as in smart homes and healthcare applications. IoT devices typically have a resource-constraine...
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| author | Aishah Alfrhan Tarek Moulahi Abdulatif Alabdulatif |
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| description | Over the last few years, there has been a great interest in the Internet of Things (IoT). This is mainly because the IoT interacts directly with people's everyday lives in critical applications, such as in smart homes and healthcare applications. IoT devices typically have a resource-constrained architecture, rendering them vulnerable to cyberattacks. Accordingly, smart devices and stored data need to be secured through lightweight and energy-efficient security solutions, which have been identified as the main challenge facing adoption of IoT systems. To address this problem, a disruptive technology (blockchain) has been foreseen by the industry and research community as being able to deliver secure, fast, reliable, and transparent solutions for IoT systems. Hence, this work investigates the adoption of lightweight blockchain technology, mainly as a method of securing IoT systems. Because hashing plays a major role in creating a robust blockchain structure, we select a number of different hash techniques to be executed on a Raspberry Pi device. In summation, this work provides a numerical study to evaluate the performance of well-known hash functions that can be used for lightweight blockchain-based IoT. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73e2ff41a1094fa39a3352cb242e853c2022-12-21T20:31:04ZengElsevierBlockchain: Research and Applications2666-95362021-12-0124100036Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT)Aishah Alfrhan0Tarek Moulahi1Abdulatif Alabdulatif2Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51013, Saudi Arabia; Corresponding author.Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51013, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51013, Saudi ArabiaOver the last few years, there has been a great interest in the Internet of Things (IoT). This is mainly because the IoT interacts directly with people's everyday lives in critical applications, such as in smart homes and healthcare applications. IoT devices typically have a resource-constrained architecture, rendering them vulnerable to cyberattacks. Accordingly, smart devices and stored data need to be secured through lightweight and energy-efficient security solutions, which have been identified as the main challenge facing adoption of IoT systems. To address this problem, a disruptive technology (blockchain) has been foreseen by the industry and research community as being able to deliver secure, fast, reliable, and transparent solutions for IoT systems. Hence, this work investigates the adoption of lightweight blockchain technology, mainly as a method of securing IoT systems. Because hashing plays a major role in creating a robust blockchain structure, we select a number of different hash techniques to be executed on a Raspberry Pi device. In summation, this work provides a numerical study to evaluate the performance of well-known hash functions that can be used for lightweight blockchain-based IoT.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720921000312Lightweight blockchainInternet of Things (IoT)HashCybersecurity |
| spellingShingle | Aishah Alfrhan Tarek Moulahi Abdulatif Alabdulatif Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) Blockchain: Research and Applications Lightweight blockchain Internet of Things (IoT) Hash Cybersecurity |
| title | Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) |
| title_full | Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) |
| title_fullStr | Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) |
| title_short | Comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) |
| title_sort | comparative study on hash functions for lightweight blockchain in internet of things iot |
| topic | Lightweight blockchain Internet of Things (IoT) Hash Cybersecurity |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720921000312 |
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