A lightweight blockchain based framework for underwater ioT

- Uddin, Md, Stranieri, Andrew, Gondal, Iqbal, Balasubramanian, Venki

Title
A lightweight blockchain based framework for underwater ioT
Creator
Uddin, Md; Stranieri, Andrew; Gondal, Iqbal; Balasubramanian, Venki
Date
2019
Type
Text; Journal article
Identifier
http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/171427
Identifier
vital:14359
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8121552
Identifier
ISSN:2079-9292
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) has facilitated services without human intervention for a wide range of applications, including underwater monitoring, where sensors are located at various depths, and data must be transmitted to surface base stations for storage and processing. Ensuring that data transmitted across hierarchical sensor networks are kept secure and private without high computational cost remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose a multilevel sensor monitoring architecture. Our proposal includes a layer-based architecture consisting of Fog and Cloud elements to process and store and process the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) data securely with customized Blockchain technology. The secure routing of IoUT data through the hierarchical topology ensures the legitimacy of data sources. A security and performance analysis was performed to show that the architecture can collect data from IoUT devices in the monitoring region efficiently and securely. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Publisher
MDPI AG
Relation
Electronics (Switzerland) Vol. 8, no. 12 (2019), p.
Rights
@ 2019 by the authors.
Rights
Open Access
Subject
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Blockchain; Cloud; Consensus mechanism; Fog layer; Hierarchical topology; Indexing; Internet of Things; IoUT routing; Underwater IoT monitoring
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