An Efficient Hash-Selection-Based

Blockchain Architecture for Industrial

IoT (IIoT)

Susmit Das

, Sreyashi Karmakar

, and Himadri Nath Saha

Abstract Internet of Things is transforming devices making them “smart”, thereby

overlapping the digital and physical worlds. Interaction between IoT devices creates

networks with unprecedented scalability which, however, creates many exploitable

vulnerabilities due to the lack of built-in security in IoT devices. Blockchain can

resolve this particular limitation due to its immutable, decentralized nature. The

industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) uses IoT devices to analyse and manage industrial

data in real time for various purposes. Thus, protecting this data from different types

of attacks is necessary, for which blockchain is viable. In this chapter, we have

proposed a novel blockchain-based model that groups IIoT devices into tier-based

clusters depending on computational capability by benchmarking. Each cluster is

individually more efficient in terms of both energy utilization and security for IIoT

systems by using different computationally suitable hash algorithms. The higher

efficiency of our model compared to current solutions is proven by experimental

results.

Keywords Blockchain · IIoT · IoT · Hash function · Security · Cryptography ·

Smart devices

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Introduction

The Internet of Things (IoT) has nowadays become an important pillar of digital

communication [1]. IoT is a network of interconnected electronic computing

machines of various scales working in unison by exchange of information [2].

It is converting innumerous physical things into smart and responsive devices by

extending their connectivity using the internet [3]. IoT is being employed in various

S. Das · S. Karmakar

RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India

H. N. Saha (B)

Surendranath Evening College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India

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