$\mathsf{LightChain}$: A Lightweight Blockchain System for Industrial Internet of Things

Liu, Yinqiu; Wang, Kun; Lin, Yun; Xu, Wenyao

doi:10.1109/tii.2019.2904049

Cited by 242 publications

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“…1) Optimized blockchain for better deployment: Blockchain platforms should be optimized to achieve better performances in terms of reduced network latency, increased throughput, and improved security which can make blockchain become an ideal choice for emergency healthcare applications like the COVID-19 epidemic. For example, lightweight blockchain design in healthcare are necessary to optimize data verification and transaction communication for ultralowlatency information broadcasting [127]. Another feasible solution is to minimize the size of blockchain by establishing local and private blockchain networks, one of these is responsible to monitor the outbreak in a certain area for fast response.…”

Section: B Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

Nguyen¹,

Ding²,

Pathirana³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of coronavirus outbreak caused by a novel virus called SARS-CoV-2. The sudden explosion and uncontrolled worldwide spread of COVID-19 show the limitations of existing healthcare systems to timely handle public health emergencies. In such contexts, innovative technologies such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have emerged as promising solutions for fighting coronavirus epidemic. On the one hand, blockchain can combat pandemics by enabling early detection of outbreaks, protecting user privacy, and ensuring reliable medical supply chain during the outbreak tracking. On the other hand, AI provides intelligent solutions for identifying symptoms caused by coronavirus for treatments and supporting drug manufacturing. Motivated by these, in this paper we present an extensive survey on the use of blockchain and AI for combating coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemics based on the rapidly emerging literature. First, we introduce a new conceptual architecture which integrates blockchain and AI specific for COVID-19 fighting. Particularly, we highlight the key solutions that blockchain and AI can provide to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. Then, we survey the latest research efforts on the use of blockchain and AI for COVID-19 fighting in a wide range of applications. The newly emerging projects and use cases enabled by these technologies to deal with coronavirus pandemic are also presented. Finally, we point out challenges and future directions that motivate more research efforts to deal with future coronavirus-like epidemics.

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Section: B Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

Nguyen¹,

Ding²,

Pathirana³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…Some techniques were presented to solve the QoS issues from two perspectives: (1) lightweight blockchain designs, as discussed in [104][105][106][107][108] reducing the consensus mechanism computation in blockchain and (2) computation offloading as mentioned in [109][110][111] that is based on integrated 5G technologies with edge computing along with SDN, NFV and D2D communications.…”

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confidence: 99%

Evolution of V2X Communication and Integration of Blockchain for Security Enhancements

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With the rapid evolution in wireless communications and autonomous vehicles, intelligent and autonomous vehicles will be launched soon. Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications provides driving safety, traffic efficiency, and road information in real-time in vehicular networks. V2X has evolved by integrating cellular 5G and New Radio (NR) access technology in V2X communications (i.e., 5G NR V2X); it can fulfill the ever-evolving vehicular application, communication, and service demands of connected vehicles, such as ultra-low latency, ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-high reliability, and security. However, with the increasing number of intelligent and autonomous vehicles and their safety requirements, there is a backlash in deployment and management because of scalability, poor security and less flexibility. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) plays a significant role in bringing cloud services closer to vehicular nodes, which reduces the scalability and flexibility issues. In addition, blockchain has evolved as an effective technology enabler to solve several security, privacy, and networking issues faced by the current 5G-based MEC systems in vehicular networks. Blockchain can be integrated as a strong security mechanism for securing and managing 5G V2X along with MEC. In this survey, we discuss, in detail, state-of-the-art V2X, its evolution based on cellular 5G technology and non-cellular 802.11bd. We investigate the integration of blockchain in 5G-based MEC vehicular networks for security, privacy protection, and content caching. We present the issues and challenges in existing edge computing and 5G V2X and, then, we shed some light on future research directions in these integrated and emerging technologies.

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“…Also, the proposed architecture is designed for security, scalability, and efficiency. Recently, Liu et al [23] proposed lightweight blockchain system for applying the IoT environment. They suggested consensus mechanism called "Synergistic Multiple Proof of Work", and also suggested blockchain architecture to apply IIoT environments.…”

Section: Blockchain Based Iotmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Lightweight Hash-Based Blockchain Architecture for Industrial IoT

Seok

Park

2019

Applied Sciences

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Blockchain is a technology that can ensure data integrity in a distributed network, and it is actively applied in various fields. Recently, blockchain is gaining attention due to combining with the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the industrial field. Moreover, many researchers have proposed the Industrial IoT (IIoT) architecture with blockchain for data integrity and efficient management. The IIoT network consists of many heterogeneous devices (e.g., sensors, actuators, and programmable logic controllers (PLC)) with resources-constrained, and the availability of the network must be preferentially considered. Therefore, applying the existed blockchain technology is still challenging. There are some results about the technique of constructing blockchain lightly to solve this challenge. However, in these results, the analysis in perspective of cryptographic performance (area, throughput, and power consumption) has not been considered sufficiently, or only focused on the architecture of the blockchain network. The blockchain technology is based on cryptographic techniques, and the main part is a cryptographic hash function. Therefore, if we construct the blockchain-based IIoT architecture, we have to consider the performance of the hash function. Many lightweight hash functions have been proposed recently for the resource-constrained environment, and it can also be used to the blockchain. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the considerations of lightweight blockchain for IIoT. Also, we conduct an analysis of lightweight hash for blockchain, and propose a new lightweight hash-based blockchain architecture that can change the hash algorithm used for mining adjust to network traffic.

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$\mathsf{LightChain}$: A Lightweight Blockchain System for Industrial Internet of Things

Cited by 242 publications

References 22 publications

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

Evolution of V2X Communication and Integration of Blockchain for Security Enhancements

A Lightweight Hash-Based Blockchain Architecture for Industrial IoT

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