IoT with Multimedia Investigation: A Secure Process of Digital Forensics Chain-of-Custody using Blockchain Hyperledger Sawtooth

Khan, Abdullah Ayub; Shaikh, Aftab Ahmed; Laghari, Asif Ali

doi:10.1007/s13369-022-07555-1

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“…There are various challenges, limitations, and issues associated with the existing SMEs including the registration of startups, financial transactions exchange, and privacy, transparency in intercommunication, ledger maintenance in the centralized server-based preservation 34 . And so, it is relying on third-part data management and optimization tools with security solutions as well.…”

Section: Future Directionmentioning

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The collaborative role of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and industrial internet of things in digitalization of small and medium-size enterprises

Khan

Laghari

Dootio

et al. 2023

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Due to digitalization, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have significantly enhanced their efficiency and productivity in the past few years. The process to automate SME transaction execution is getting highly multifaceted as the number of stakeholders of SMEs is connecting, accessing, exchanging, adding, and changing the transactional executions. The balanced lifecycle of SMEs requires partnership exchanges, financial management, manufacturing, and productivity stabilities, along with privacy and security. Interoperability platform issue is another critical challenging aspect while designing and managing a secure distributed Peer-to-Peer industrial development environment for SMEs. However, till now, it is hard to maintain operations of SMEs' integrity, transparency, reliability, provenance, availability, and trustworthiness between two different enterprises due to the current nature of centralized server-based infrastructure. This paper bridges these problems and proposes a novel and secure framework with a standardized process hierarchy/lifecycle for distributed SMEs using collaborative techniques of blockchain, the internet of things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI) with machine learning (ML). A blockchain with IoT-enabled permissionless network structure is designed called “B-SMEs” that provides solutions to cross-chain platforms. In this, B-SMEs address the lightweight stakeholder authentication problems as well. For that purpose, three different chain codes are deployed. It handles participating SMEs' registration, day-to-day information management and exchange between nodes, and analysis of partnership exchange-related transaction details before being preserved on the blockchain immutable storage. Whereas AI-enabled ML-based artificial neural networks are utilized, the aim is to handle and optimize day-to-day numbers of SME transactions; so that the proposed B-SMEs consume fewer resources in terms of computational power, network bandwidth, and preservation-related issues during the complete process of SMEs service deliverance. The simulation results present highlight the benefits of B-SMEs, increases the rate of ledger management and optimization while exchanging information between different chains, which is up to 17.3%, and reduces the consumption of the system’s computational resources down to 9.13%. Thus, only 14.11% and 7.9% of B-SME’s transactions use network bandwidth and storage capabilities compared to the current mechanism of SMEs, respectively.

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Section: Future Directionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The collaborative role of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and industrial internet of things in digitalization of small and medium-size enterprises

Khan

Laghari

Dootio

et al. 2023

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“…A state‐of‐art review about power automation and distribution using Artificial intelligence and blockchain is presented in Reference 137. A Digital Forensics Chain‐of‐Custody for surveillance mechanism is proposed in Reference 138. The process establishes a Blockchain network to facilitate the exchange of investigation information among involved stakeholders.…”

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The blockchain conundrum: An in‐depth examination of challenges, contributing technologies, and alternatives

Reshi,

Sholla

2023

Concurrency and Computation

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SummaryThe accelerated development of information and communication technologies has generated a demand for data storage that is effective, transparent, immutable, and secure. Distributed ledger technology and encryption techniques such as hashing and blockchain technology revolutionised the landscape by meeting these requirements. However, blockchain must overcome obstacles such as low latency, throughput, and scalability for its full potential. Investigating blockchain's structure, types, challenges, promises, and variants is necessary to understand blockchain and its capabilities comprehensively. This paper overviews various aspects, such as emergent blockchain protocols, models, concepts, and trends. We classify blockchain variants into five essential categories, DAG, TDAG, Sharding, Consensus, and Combining methods, based on the structure each follows, and conduct a comparative analysis. In addition, we explore current research tendencies. As technology progresses, it is essential to comprehend the fundamental requirements for blockchain development.

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“…However, as blockchain technology advances and various industries accumulate vast amounts of data, the traditional single chain blockchain system proves inadequate for increasingly complex application scenarios. Consequently, master–slave blockchains (MSBC) structures such as Spark Chain have garnered attention from experts and scholars alike, finding extensive applications in security 5 , 6 , fog computing 7 , industrial internet of things 8 . Master–slave blockchains typically consist of a master chain comprising master blocks connected to slave chains composed of slave blocks.…”

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Multi-level index construction method based on master–slave blockchains

Zhang,

Li,

Liu

et al. 2024

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Master–slave blockchain is a novel information processing technology that is domain-oriented and uses efficient cryptography principles for trustworthy communication and storage of big data. Existing indexing methods primarily target the creation of a single-structured blockchain, resulting in extensive time and memory requirements. As the scale of domain data continues to grow exponentially, master–slave blockchain systems face increasingly severe challenges with regards to low query efficiency and extended traceback times. To address these issues, this paper propose a multi-level index construction method for the master–slave blockchain (MLI). Firstly, MLI introduces a weight matrix and partitions the entire master–slave blockchain based on the master chain structure, the weight of each partition is assigned. Secondly, for the master blockchain in each partition, a master chain index construction method based on jump consistent hash (JHMI) is proposed, which takes the key value of the nodes and the number of index slots as input and outputs the master chain index. Finally, a bloom filter is introduced to improve the column-based selection function and build a secondary composite index on the subordinate blockchain corresponding to each master block. Experimental results on three constraint conditions and two types of datasets demonstrate that the proposed method reduce the index construction time by an average of 9.28%, improve the query efficiency by 12.07%, and reduce the memory overhead by 24.4%.

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IoT with Multimedia Investigation: A Secure Process of Digital Forensics Chain-of-Custody using Blockchain Hyperledger Sawtooth

Cited by 19 publications

References 39 publications

The collaborative role of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and industrial internet of things in digitalization of small and medium-size enterprises

The collaborative role of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and industrial internet of things in digitalization of small and medium-size enterprises

The blockchain conundrum: An in‐depth examination of challenges, contributing technologies, and alternatives

Multi-level index construction method based on master–slave blockchains

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