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34 Citations
11,423 Views
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Enabling Secure Data Exchange through the IOTA Tangle for IoT Constrained Devices

  • Alberto Carelli,
  • Andrea Palmieri,
  • Antonio Vilei,
  • Fabien Castanier and
  • Andrea Vesco

11 February 2022

Internet-of-Things (IoT) and sensor technologies have enabled the collection of data in a distributed fashion for analysis and evidence-based decision making. However, security concerns regarding the source, confidentiality and integrity of the data...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,705 Views
30 Pages

The fairness problem in the IOTA (Internet of Things Application) Tangle network has significant implications for transaction efficiency, scalability, and security, particularly concerning orphan transactions and lazy tips. Traditional tip selection...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Internet of Things—Current Trends, Applications, and Future Challenges (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,812 Views
17 Pages

28 September 2023

IOTA is a new public chain system specifically designed for the Internet of Things (IoT), which provides strong support for the high concurrency, scalability, and zero handling fees of the IoT. The distributed ledger of IOTA, called the tangle, adopt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalability, Sustainability and Security: Searching for New Blockchain Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,175 Views
17 Pages

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of many wireless sensor nodes for collecting and sensing information. Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) such as Blockchain allow organizations to store and share data in a decentralized, immutable, and sec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain Technology and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,402 Views
20 Pages

Integrating IOTA’s Tangle with the Internet of Things for Sustainable Agriculture: A Proof-of-Concept Study on Rice Cultivation

  • Sandro Pullo,
  • Remo Pareschi,
  • Valentina Piantadosi,
  • Francesco Salzano and
  • Roberto Carlini

Addressing the critical challenges of resource inefficiency and environmental impact in the agrifood sector, this study explores the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies with IOTA’s Tangle, a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,357 Views
19 Pages

Securing Environmental IoT Data Using Masked Authentication Messaging Protocol in a DAG-Based Blockchain: IOTA Tangle

  • Pranav Gangwani,
  • Alexander Perez-Pons,
  • Tushar Bhardwaj,
  • Himanshu Upadhyay,
  • Santosh Joshi and
  • Leonel Lagos

6 December 2021

The demand for the digital monitoring of environmental ecosystems is high and growing rapidly as a means of protecting the public and managing the environment. However, before data, algorithms, and models can be mobilized at scale, there are consider...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Blockchains and the IoT)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,573 Views
25 Pages

From IOTA Tangle 2.0 to Rebased: A Comparative Analysis of Decentralization, Scalability, and Suitability for IoT Applications

  • Pierre Sedi Nzakuna,
  • Vincenzo Paciello,
  • Aimé Lay-Ekuakille,
  • Angelo Kuti Lusala,
  • Salvatore Dello Iacono and
  • Antonio Pietrosanto

28 May 2025

The Internet of Things (IoT) demands scalable, secure, and feeless distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) to enable seamless machine-to-machine transactions. The IOTA DLT was developed to fulfill this vision through its feeless Directed Acyclic Graph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements and Challenges in IoT Communication Technologies for a Connected World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,389 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2021

Many food safety incidents have occurred in the world in the past 20 years, causing major threats and harm to human life and health. Each country or region has established different food safety management systems (FSMSs) in response, to increase food...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Safety Management and Quality Control Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,903 Views
23 Pages

Addressing the Cost Optimization Issue for IOTA Based on Lyapunov Optimization Theory

  • Yinfeng Chen,
  • Baojun Sun,
  • Yaofei Wang,
  • Zhixin Qiu and
  • Yang Li

30 October 2024

IOTA is an emerging decentralized computing paradigm for developing blockchain-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications. It has the advantages of zero transaction fees, incremental scalability, and high-performance transaction rates. Despite its w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalability, Sustainability and Security: Searching for New Blockchain Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,914 Views
18 Pages

Deletion-Based Tangle Architecture for Edge Computing

  • Khikmatullo Tulkinbekov and
  • Deok-Hwan Kim

27 October 2022

IOTA Tangle offers a promising approach for distributed ledger technology with the capability to compete with the traditional blockchain. To enable microtransactions the Internet of things (IoT) environment, IOTA employs a direct acrylic graph that e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-Time Control of Embedded Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,222 Views
20 Pages

29 February 2024

As the potential of directed acyclic graph (DAG)-based distributed ledgers in IoT systems unfolds, a need arises to understand their intricate dynamics in real-world scenarios. It is well known that discrete event simulations can provide high-fidelit...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,125 Views
18 Pages

Computing Resource Allocation Scheme for DAG-Based IOTA Nodes

  • Houssein Hellani,
  • Layth Sliman,
  • Abed Ellatif Samhat and
  • Ernesto Exposito

9 July 2021

IOTA is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform proposed for the internet of things (IoT) systems in order to tackle the limitations of Blockchain in terms of latency, scalability, and transaction cost. The main concepts used in IOTA to reach...

(This article belongs to the Collection Intelligent Wireless Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,160 Views
35 Pages

Decentralized Identity Management for Internet of Things (IoT) Devices Using IOTA Blockchain Technology

  • Tamai Ramírez-Gordillo,
  • Antonio Maciá-Lillo,
  • Francisco A. Pujol,
  • Nahuel García-D’Urso,
  • Jorge Azorín-López and
  • Higinio Mora

20 January 2025

The exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) necessitates robust, scalable, and secure identity management solutions to handle the vast number of interconnected devices. Traditional centralized identity systems are increasingly inadequate d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain and Web3: Applications, Challenges and Future Trends—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,278 Views
17 Pages

Offline Scaling of IoT Devices in IOTA Blockchain

  • Abhimanyu Rawat,
  • Vanesa Daza and
  • Matteo Signorini

12 February 2022

An increased pattern of hidden Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been observed. Due to the increased number of security attacks, a large number of IoT devices are disappearing from the public internet. Operating blockchain operations in such ad ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain for Trustworthy Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,956 Views
24 Pages

30 July 2025

Trust evaluation has become a major challenge in the quickly developing Internet of Things (IoT) environment because of the vulnerabilities and security hazards associated with networked devices. To overcome these obstacles, this study offers a novel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence, Security, Trust and Privacy Advances in IoT, Bigdata and 5G Networks (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,474 Views
22 Pages

P-IOTA: A Cloud-Based Geographically Distributed Threat Alert System That Leverages P4 and IOTA

  • Amir Al Sadi,
  • Carlo Mazzocca,
  • Andrea Melis,
  • Rebecca Montanari,
  • Marco Prandini and
  • Nicolò Romandini

8 March 2023

The recent widespread novel network technologies for programming data planes are remarkably enhancing the customization of data packet processing. In this direction, the Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors (P4) is envisioned as a disru...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
15,727 Views
18 Pages

Indoor Air-Quality Data-Monitoring System: Long-Term Monitoring Benefits

  • Shengjing Sun,
  • Xiaochen Zheng,
  • Javier Villalba-Díez and
  • Joaquín Ordieres-Meré

25 September 2019

Indoor air pollution has been ranked among the top five environmental risks to public health. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is proven to have significant impacts on people’s comfort, health, and performance. Through a systematic literature review in the a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sense and Respond: Industrial Applications of Smart Sensors in Cyber-Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,488 Views
22 Pages

30 April 2024

Within the domain of industrial control systems, safeguarding data integrity stands as a pivotal endeavor, especially in light of the burgeoning menace posed by malicious tampering and potential data loss. Traditional data storage paradigms, tethered...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Automation and Smart Manufacturing in Industry 4.0/5.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,173 Views
19 Pages

30 March 2022

IOTA is a new cryptocurrency system designed for the Internet of Things based on directed an acyclic graph structure. It has the advantages of supporting high concurrency, scalability, and zero transaction fees; however, due to the particularity of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematical Methods in Intelligent Multimedia: Security and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,329 Views
27 Pages

Combining IOTA and Attribute-Based Encryption for Access Control in the Internet of Things

  • Yuanyu Zhang,
  • Ruka Nakanishi,
  • Masahiro Sasabe and
  • Shoji Kasahara

26 July 2021

Unauthorized resource access represents a typical security threat in the Internet of Things (IoT), while distributed ledger technologies (e.g., blockchain and IOTA) hold great promise to address this threat. Although blockchain-based IoT access contr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain for Trustworthy Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,236 Views
25 Pages

IOTASDN: IOTA 2.0 Smart Contracts for Securing Software-Defined Networking Ecosystem

  • Mohamed Fartitchou,
  • Ismail Lamaakal,
  • Yassine Maleh,
  • Khalid El Makkaoui,
  • Zakaria El Allali,
  • Paweł Pławiak,
  • Fahad Alblehai and
  • Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif

2 September 2024

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has revolutionized network management by providing unprecedented flexibility, control, and efficiency. However, its centralized architecture introduces critical security vulnerabilities. This paper introduces a novel...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,543 Views
31 Pages

18 September 2019

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is an enabling technology for numerous initiatives worldwide such as manufacturing, smart cities, precision agriculture, and eHealth. The massive field data aggregation of distributed administered IoT devices allows new insig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,931 Views
29 Pages

PUFchain 3.0: Hardware-Assisted Distributed Ledger for Robust Authentication in Healthcare Cyber–Physical Systems

  • Venkata K. V. V. Bathalapalli,
  • Saraju P. Mohanty,
  • Elias Kougianos,
  • Vasanth Iyer and
  • Bibhudutta Rout

31 January 2024

This article presents a novel hardware-assisted distributed ledger-based solution for simultaneous device and data security in smart healthcare. This article presents a novel architecture that integrates PUF, blockchain, and Tangle for Security-by-De...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Health Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,596 Views
28 Pages

29 November 2023

The novel contribution of this research is decentralised IOTA-based concepts of digital trust for securing remote driving in an urban environment. The conceptual solutions are studied and described, and respective experimental solutions are developed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,282 Views
38 Pages

Efficient Data Communication Using Distributed Ledger Technology and IOTA-Enabled Internet of Things for a Future Machine-to-Machine Economy

  • Mohd Majid Akhtar,
  • Danish Raza Rizvi,
  • Mohd Abdul Ahad,
  • Salil S. Kanhere,
  • Mohammad Amjad and
  • Giuseppe Coviello

25 June 2021

A potential rise in interest in the Internet of Things in the upcoming years is expected in the fields of healthcare, supply chain, logistics, industries, smart cities, smart homes, cyber physical systems, etc. This paper discloses the fusion of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,600 Views
11 Pages

18 February 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) suffers from various security vulnerabilities. The use of blockchain technology can help resolve these vulnerabilities, but some practical problems in terms of scalability continue to hinder the adaption of blockchain for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
11,308 Views
25 Pages

Blockchain IoT for Smart Electric Vehicles Battery Management

  • Bogdan Cristian Florea and
  • Dragos Daniel Taralunga

13 May 2020

Electric Vehicles (EVs) have generated a lot of interest in recent years, due to the advances in battery life and low pollution. Similarly, the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) allowed more and more devices to be interconnected. One major pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficiency and Sustainability of the Distributed Renewable Hybrid Power Systems Based on the Energy Internet, Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,025 Views
35 Pages

Designing a Private and Secure Personal Health Records Access Management System: A Solution Based on IOTA Distributed Ledger Technology

  • Serkan Akbulut,
  • Farida Habib Semantha,
  • Sami Azam,
  • Iris Cathrina Abacan Pilares,
  • Mirjam Jonkman,
  • Kheng Cher Yeo and
  • Bharanidharan Shanmugam

29 May 2023

The privacy and security of patients’ health records have been an ongoing issue, and researchers are in a race against technology to design a system that can help stop the compromising of patient data. Many researchers have proposed solutions;...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
13,968 Views
18 Pages

1 May 2019

With the rapid development of the internet of things (IoT), traditional industries are setting off a massive wave of digitization. In the era of the Internet of Everything, millions of devices and links in IoT pose more significant challenges to data...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,588 Views
23 Pages

26 January 2022

In the Internet of Things (IoT), many devices can communicate with each other directly through the Internet, and there are already good applications in transportation systems, smart meters, and smart home appliances. Wireless sensor networks are used...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption in Blockchain)