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Blockchain for IoT-Based Smart Cities: Recent Advances, Requirements, and Future Challenges

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 14736

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Yuanyu Zhang

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Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara 630-0192, Japan
Interests: IoT security and privacy; Blockchain and Blockchain security
Dr. Xuewen Dong

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Sch Comp Sci & Technol, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China
Interests: Blockchain; Wireless network security; Big data security and privacy
Prof. Dr. Ning Xi

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School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Interests: network security; IoT security; blockchain
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Dr. Ji He

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Sch Comp Sci & Technol, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China
Interests: IoT security; Wireless communication security

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

The emerging blockchain technology has transformed the way how multiple parties reach a common and trustworthy consensus in trustless systems. Owing to its fascinating tamper-proof nature, the blockchain technology has opened a new avenue for distributed storage and computing, and has found promising applications in Smart Cites, like secure data sharing, identity/device management and access control for electronic health records (EHRs). The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for worldwide researchers to share their innovative ideas and latest findings in the application of blockchain in Smart Cities, and also to discuss the challenges we are facing or will face to reap the full benefits of blockchain for Smart Cities. This Special Issue covers (but is not limited to) the following topics:

  • Innovative applications of blockchain for Smart Cities
  • Optimization of blockchain for Smart Cities
  • Design of novel blockchain for Smart Cities
  • Blockchain-based access control in Smart Cities
  • Blockchain-based data sharing in Smart Cities
  • Blockchain-based identity management in Smart Cities
  • Attacks and defenses on blockchain platforms in Smart Cities
  • Automatic security verification for blockchain system in Smart Cities

Prof. Dr. Yuanyu Zhang
Dr. Xuewen Dong
Dr. Ning Xi
Dr. Ji He
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Internet of Things
  • Smart Cities
  • Security and privacy

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Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Wastewater Management in Smart Cities
by Abdullah I. A. Alzahrani, Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary and Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi
Electronics 2023, 12(12), 2590; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122590 - 8 Jun 2023
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Wastewater management is a mechanism that is used to extract and refine pollutants from wastewater or drainage that can be recycled to the water supply with minimal environmental effects. New methods and techniques are required to ensure safe and smart wastewater management systems [...] Read more.
Wastewater management is a mechanism that is used to extract and refine pollutants from wastewater or drainage that can be recycled to the water supply with minimal environmental effects. New methods and techniques are required to ensure safe and smart wastewater management systems in smart cities because of the present deteriorating environmental state. Wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) represent promising wastewater treatment technologies. The elaborated literature survey formulates a conceptual framework with an Internet of Things (IoT)-based wastewater management system in smart cities (IoT-WMS) using blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is now being used to store information to develop an incentive model for encouraging the reuse of wastewater. Concerning the quality and quantity of recycled wastewater, tokens are issued to households/industries in smart cities. Nevertheless, this often encourages tampering with the information from which these tokens are awarded to include certain rewards. Anomaly detector algorithms are used to identify the possible IoT sensor data which has been tampered with by intruders. The model employs IoT sensors together with quality metrics to measure the amount of wastewater produced and reused. The simulation analysis shows that the proposed method achieves a high wastewater recycling rate of 96.3%, an efficiency ratio of 88.7%, a low moisture content ratio of 32.4%, an increased wastewater reuse of 90.8%, and a prediction ratio of 92.5%. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain for IoT-Based Smart Cities: Recent Advances, Requirements, and Future Challenges)
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Resolving Security Issues in the IoT Using Blockchain
by Hafiz Abid Mahmood Malik, Asghar Ali Shah, AbdulHafeez Muhammad, Ahmad Kananah and Ayesha Aslam
Electronics 2022, 11(23), 3950; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11233950 - 29 Nov 2022
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The Internet of Things is a system of interconnected smart devices that can communicate with each other and with other devices over the Internet, with or without human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Although IoT devices, which have IPs, make living easier, they are also [...] Read more.
The Internet of Things is a system of interconnected smart devices that can communicate with each other and with other devices over the Internet, with or without human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Although IoT devices, which have IPs, make living easier, they are also a threat to the security and privacy of people. This research work presents a solution to the problem of security in the network of IoT, based on the idea of implementing the blockchain in IoT. Blockchain is a decentralized technology that adds blocks at the end of the chain. It saves the hash value for every block, and corresponds to the previous block. The decentralized behavior of blockchain is best for IoT as an extensive network, because IoT must not have a single point of failure, and one entity must not decide what to do. All the capable storage devices will save the same data entered from any device, removing the risk of receiving altered data. Full article
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