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Security and blockchain convergence with internet of multimedia things : current trends, research challenges and future directions

- Jan, Mian, Cai, Jinjin, Gao, Xiang-Chuan, Khan, Fazlullah, Mastorakis, Spyridon, Usman, Muhammad, Alazab, Mamoun, Watters, Paul

Authors: Jan, Mian , Cai, Jinjin , Gao, Xiang-Chuan , Khan, Fazlullah , Mastorakis, Spyridon , Usman, Muhammad , Alazab, Mamoun , Watters, Paul
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Network and Computer Applications Vol. 175, no. (2021), p.
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Description: The Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) orchestration enables the integration of systems, software, cloud, and smart sensors into a single platform. The IoMT deals with scalar as well as multimedia data. In these networks, sensor-embedded devices and their data face numerous challenges when it comes to security. In this paper, a comprehensive review of the existing literature for IoMT is presented in the context of security and blockchain. The latest literature on all three aspects of security, i.e., authentication, privacy, and trust is provided to explore the challenges experienced by multimedia data. The convergence of blockchain and IoMT along with multimedia-enabled blockchain platforms are discussed for emerging applications. To highlight the significance of this survey, large-scale commercial projects focused on security and blockchain for multimedia applications are reviewed. The shortcomings of these projects are explored and suggestions for further improvement are provided. Based on the aforementioned discussion, we present our own case study for healthcare industry: a theoretical framework having security and blockchain as key enablers. The case study reflects the importance of security and blockchain in multimedia applications of healthcare sector. Finally, we discuss the convergence of emerging technologies with security, blockchain and IoMT to visualize the future of tomorrow's applications. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd

A distributed and anonymous data collection framework based on multilevel edge computing architecture

- Usman, Muhammad, Jan, Mian, Jolfaei, Alireza, Xu, Min, He, Xiangjian, Chen, Jinjun

Authors: Usman, Muhammad , Jan, Mian , Jolfaei, Alireza , Xu, Min , He, Xiangjian , Chen, Jinjun
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Vol. 16, no. 9 (2020), p. 6114-6123
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Description: Industrial Internet of Things applications demand trustworthiness in terms of quality of service (QoS), security, and privacy, to support the smooth transmission of data. To address these challenges, in this article, we propose a distributed and anonymous data collection (DaaC) framework based on a multilevel edge computing architecture. This framework distributes captured data among multiple level-one edge devices (LOEDs) to improve the QoS and minimize packet drop and end-to-end delay. Mobile sinks are used to collect data from LOEDs and upload to cloud servers. Before data collection, the mobile sinks are registered with a level-two edge-device to protect the underlying network. The privacy of mobile sinks is preserved through group-based signed data collection requests. Experimental results show that our proposed framework improves QoS through distributed data transmission. It also helps in protecting the underlying network through a registration scheme and preserves the privacy of mobile sinks through group-based data collection requests. © 2005-2012 IEEE.

A blockchain-based privacy-preserving mechanism with aggregator as common communication point

- Yahaya, Adamu, Javaid, Nadeem, Khalid, Rabiya, Imran, Muhammad, Guizani, Mohsen

Authors: Yahaya, Adamu , Javaid, Nadeem , Khalid, Rabiya , Imran, Muhammad , Guizani, Mohsen
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020, Dublin, Ireland, 7 to 11 June, IEEE International Conference on Communications Vol. 2020-June
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Description: The high penetration of renewable energy resources into the distributed system and their intermittent behavior of the non-dispatchable generation causes issues of demand supply mismatch and serious security and privacy concerned in the system. It is believed that incorporating blockchain will reduce costs, enhance data security, and improve the system efficiency. However, privacy issues are not completely eliminated and can hinder the wide applications of blockchain. In the study, we present a Reputation Based Starvation Free Energy Allocation Policy (Reputation-SFEAP) in a decentralized and distributed blockchain-based energy trading; while keeping Aggregator as Common Communication Point. In addition, Identity-Based encryption (ID-Based encryption) technique is added that improves transactional information privacy. According to the research analysis, it is observed that the proposed system model has optimal and fair energy allocation algorithms, which prevent all the energy users from energy starvation and share the available energy accordingly. Moreover, the incorporated encryption system has greater security-privacy level, which protects passive attacker and disguises attacker from penetration. © 2020 IEEE.

Is blockchain for internet of medical things a panacea for COVID-19 pandemic?

- Li, Xuran, Tao, Bishenghui, Dai, Hong-Ning, Imran, Muhammad, Wan, Dehuan, Li, Dengwang

Authors: Li, Xuran , Tao, Bishenghui , Dai, Hong-Ning , Imran, Muhammad , Wan, Dehuan , Li, Dengwang
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Pervasive and Mobile Computing Vol. 75, no. (2021), p.
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Description: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply influenced the lifestyle of the general public and the healthcare system of the society. As a promising approach to address the emerging challenges caused by the epidemic of infectious diseases like COVID-19, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) deployed in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare centers can save the diagnosis time and improve the efficiency of medical resources though privacy and security concerns of IoMT stall the wide adoption. In order to tackle the privacy, security, and interoperability issues of IoMT, we propose a framework of blockchain-enabled IoMT by introducing blockchain to incumbent IoMT systems. In this paper, we review the benefits of this architecture and illustrate the opportunities brought by blockchain-enabled IoMT. We also provide use cases of blockchain-enabled IoMT on fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, including the prevention of infectious diseases, location sharing and contact tracing, and the supply chain of injectable medicines. We also outline future work in this area. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

A framework for data privacy and security accountability in data breach communications

- Thomas, Louise, Gondal, Iqbal, Oseni, Taiwo, Firmin, Sally

Authors: Thomas, Louise , Gondal, Iqbal , Oseni, Taiwo , Firmin, Sally
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Computers and Security Vol. 116, no. (2022), p.
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Description: Organisations need to take steps to protect the privacy and security of the personal information they hold. However, when data is breached, how do individuals know whether the organisation took reasonable steps to protect their data? When breached organisations notify affected individuals, this communication is likely to be one of the few windows into the incident from the outside and can become an important artefact for research. This desktop study aimed to consider the extent to which publicly available Australian data breach communications reflect data privacy and security best practices. This paper presents a brief review of literature and government guidance on data security and privacy best practices, along with the results of a qualitative content analysis of 33 publicly available Australian data breach communications. This analysis illustrated that there was little reflection of data privacy and security practices. Literature, government guidance and the content analysis were used to inform and develop a new voluntary framework for organisations. This consists of a series of evaluation questions divided into two broad categories: responsible data management and responsible portrayal of the breach. The framework has the potential to help organisations plan the inclusion of data privacy and security management aspects in their data breach communications. This could assist organisations to address their legal and ethical responsibility to account for their actions in managing privacy and security of the personal data they hold. © 2022

Security and privacy issues in RFID systems

- Kamruzzaman, Joarder, Azad, Arman, Karmakar, Nemai, Karmakar, Gour, Srinivasan, Bala

Authors: Kamruzzaman, Joarder , Azad, Arman , Karmakar, Nemai , Karmakar, Gour , Srinivasan, Bala
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Advanced RFID Systems, Security, and Applications Chapter 2 p. 16-40
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Description: Security and privacy protection are very critical requirements for the widespread deployment of RFID technologies for commercial applications. In this chapter, the authors first present the security and privacy requirement of any commercial system, and then highlight the security and privacy threats that are unique to an RFID system. The security and privacy preserving protocols for RFID system proposed in literature are elaborately discussed, analyzing their strengths, vulnerabilities, and implementation issues. The open research challenges that need further investigation, especially with the rapid introduction of diverse RFID applications, are also presented.

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Privacy protection and energy optimization for 5G-aided industrial internet of things

- Humayun, Mamoona, Jhanjhi, Nz, Alruwaili, Madallah, Amalathas, Sagaya, Balasubramanian, Venki, Selvaraj, Buvana

Authors: Humayun, Mamoona , Jhanjhi, Nz , Alruwaili, Madallah , Amalathas, Sagaya , Balasubramanian, Venki , Selvaraj, Buvana
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: IEEE Access Vol. 8, no. (2020), p. 183665-183677
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Description: The 5G is expected to revolutionize every sector of life by providing interconnectivity of everything everywhere at high speed. However, massively interconnected devices and fast data transmission will bring the challenge of privacy as well as energy deficiency. In today's fast-paced economy, almost every sector of the economy is dependent on energy resources. On the other hand, the energy sector is mainly dependent on fossil fuels and is constituting about 80% of energy globally. This massive extraction and combustion of fossil fuels lead to a lot of adverse impacts on health, environment, and economy. The newly emerging 5G technology has changed the existing phenomenon of life by connecting everything everywhere using IoT devices. 5G enabled IIoT devices has transformed everything from traditional to smart, e.g. smart city, smart healthcare, smart industry, smart manufacturing etc. However, massive I/O technologies for providing D2D connection has also created the issue of privacy that need to be addressed. Privacy is the fundamental right of every individual. 5G industries and organizations need to preserve it for their stability and competency. Therefore, privacy at all three levels (data, identity and location) need to be maintained. Further, energy optimization is a big challenge that needs to be addressed for leveraging the potential benefits of 5G and 5G aided IIoT. Billions of IIoT devices that are expected to communicate using the 5G network will consume a considerable amount of energy while energy resources are limited. Therefore, energy optimization is a future challenge faced by 5G industries that need to be addressed. To fill these gaps, we have provided a comprehensive framework that will help energy researchers and practitioners in better understanding of 5G aided industry 4.0 infrastructure and energy resource optimization by improving privacy. The proposed framework is evaluated using case studies and mathematical modelling. © 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. All rights reserved.

Towards secure fog computing: A survey on trust management, privacy, authentication, threats and access control

- Patwary, Abdullah Al-Noman, Naha, Ranesh Kumar, Garg, Saurabh, Battula, Sudheer, Patwary, Md Anwarul, Aghasian, Erfan, Amin, Muhammad, Mahanti, Aniket, Gong, Mingwei

Authors: Patwary, Abdullah Al-Noman , Naha, Ranesh Kumar , Garg, Saurabh , Battula, Sudheer , Patwary, Md Anwarul , Aghasian, Erfan , Amin, Muhammad , Mahanti, Aniket , Gong, Mingwei
Date: 2021
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Relation: Electronics Vol. 10, no. 10 (2021), p. 1171
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Description: Fog computing is an emerging computing paradigm that has come into consideration for the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) applications amongst researchers and technology industries over the last few years. Fog is highly distributed and consists of a wide number of autonomous end devices, which contribute to the processing. However, the variety of devices offered across different users are not audited. Hence, the security of Fog devices is a major concern that should come into consideration. Therefore, to provide the necessary security for Fog devices, there is a need to understand what the security concerns are with regards to Fog. All aspects of Fog security, which have not been covered by other literature works, need to be identified and aggregated. On the other hand, privacy preservation for user’s data in Fog devices and application data processed in Fog devices is another concern. To provide the appropriate level of trust and privacy, there is a need to focus on authentication, threats and access control mechanisms as well as privacy protection techniques in Fog computing. In this paper, a survey along with a taxonomy is proposed, which presents an overview of existing security concerns in the context of the Fog computing paradigm. Moreover, the Blockchain-based solutions towards a secure Fog computing environment is presented and various research challenges and directions for future research are discussed.

P2DCA: A Privacy-preserving-based data collection and analysis framework for IoMT applications

- Usman, Muhammad, Jan, Mian, He, Xiangjian, Chen, Jinjun

Authors: Usman, Muhammad , Jan, Mian , He, Xiangjian , Chen, Jinjun
Date: 2019
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Relation: IEEE journal on selected areas in communications Vol. 37, no. 6 (2019), p. 1222-1230
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Description: The concept of Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) is becoming popular nowadays and can be used in various smart city applications, e.g., traffic management, healthcare, and surveillance. In the IoMT, the devices, e.g., Multimedia Sensor Nodes (MSNs), are capable of generating both multimedia and non-multimedia data. The generated data are forwarded to a cloud server via a Base Station (BS). However, it is possible that the Internet connection between the BS and the cloud server may be temporarily down. The limited computational resources restrict the MSNs from holding the captured data for a longer time. In this situation, mobile sinks can be utilized to collect data from MSNs and upload to the cloud server. However, this data collection may create privacy issues, such as revealing identities and location information of MSNs. Therefore, there is a need to preserve the privacy of MSNs during mobile data collection. In this paper, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving-based data collection and analysis (P2DCA) framework for IoMT applications. The proposed framework partitions an underlying wireless multimedia sensor network into multiple clusters. Each cluster is represented by a Cluster Head (CH). The CHs are responsible to protect the privacy of member MSNs through data and location coordinates aggregation. Later, the aggregated multimedia data are analyzed on the cloud server using a counter-propagation artificial neural network to extract meaningful information through segmentation. Experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms the existing privacy-preserving schemes, and can be used to collect multimedia data in various IoMT applications.

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