Paper Info
Title
A Blockchain-Based Contractual Routing Protocol for the Internet of Things Using Smart Contracts.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel blockchain-based contractual routing (BCR) protocol for a network of untrusted IoT devices. In contrast to conventional secure routing protocols in which a central authority (CA) is required to facilitate the identification and authentication of each device, the BCR protocol operates in a distributed manner with no CA. The BCR protocol utilizes smart contracts to discover a route to a destination or data gateway within heterogeneous IoT networks. Any intermediary device can guarantee a route from a source IoT device to a destination device or gateway. We compare the performance of BCR with that of the Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol in a network of 14 devices. The results show that the routing overhead of the BCR protocol is 5 times lower compared to AODV at the cost of a slightly lower packet delivery ratio. BCR is fairly resistant to both Blackhole and (keyhole attacks. The results show that the BCR protocol enables distributed routing in heterogeneous IoT networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1155/2018/4029591
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING
Field
DocType
Volume
Authentication,Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing,Computer science,Internet of Things,Network packet,Computer network,Default gateway,Blockchain,Distance-vector routing protocol,Routing protocol,Distributed computing
Journal
2018
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-8669
5
0.47
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gholamreza Ramezan1111.64
Cyril Leung289962.23