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The world has evolved to a point where it is impossible to imagine interaction without networks or without connections between devices and people. The advent of the fifth industrial revolution saw the rise of interconnected devices and ‘things’. Internet of Things (IoT) has become the defacto standard for devices and people communicating with each other. The newer the devices that are released in the market so has to be the security be updated to counter security attacks. Every device has to be updated to the latest firmware to keep it secure and work optimally; this paper proposes an architecture to facilitate a secure firmware update in a distributed trust-based blockchain IoT network.
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Roy, G.G.R., Britto Ramesh Kumar, S. (2019). An Architecture to Enable Secure Firmware Updates on a Distributed-Trust IoT Network Using Blockchain. In: Smys, S., Bestak, R., Chen, JZ., Kotuliak, I. (eds) International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Technologies. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 15. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8681-6_61
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