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Blockchain and Its Role in the Internet of Things

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This paper provides an overview of blockchain architectures designed for Internet of Things (IoT) networks, namely, Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT), Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Internet of Energy (IoE), and Internet of Cloud (IoC). This paper starts by providing a horizontal overview of the blockchain mechanism. Moreover, it explores the relation between the IoT and other emerging technologies including, blockchain, IoHT, IoV, IoE, and IoC. For each subsector of IoT, it gives a taxonomy and a side-by-side comparison of the state-of-the-art methods towards secure blockchain mechanism with respect to the specific security goals, performance, limitations, and complexity. The main objective of this article is to provide a thorough summary of the blockchain protocols designed for IoT and published during 2018.

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  1. LabSTIC Laboratory, Guelma University, Guelma, Algeria

    Mohamed Amine Ferrag

  2. LRS Laboratory, Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University, Annaba, Algeria

    Mohamed Amine Ferrag

  3. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Leandros Maglaras & Helge Janicke

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of West Attica, Aigaleo, Greece

    Androniki Kavoura

  2. Department of Business Administration, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA

    Efstathios Kefallonitis

  3. Department of Business Administration, University of West Attica, Aigaleo, Greece

    Apostolos Giovanis

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Ferrag, M.A., Maglaras, L., Janicke, H. (2019). Blockchain and Its Role in the Internet of Things. In: Kavoura, A., Kefallonitis, E., Giovanis, A. (eds) Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12453-3_119

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