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Development of an Enhanced Blockchain Mechanism for Internet of Things Authentication

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The rising number of Internet of Things devices across public networks bring speed, accuracy, and responsibility. The complexity of Internet of Things communications and different resource capacities make end-to-end security hard to achieve. Despite The authentication of the identities of individual nodes is a critical component in making the Internet of Things safe to use. A blockchain-based identification strategy has been proposed for heterogeneous IoT nodes. To begin, the primary goal of this blockchain model is to improve the level of compatibility between the blockchain and the Internet of Things ecosystem. After that, the purpose of the method for selecting the proxy node is to construct a connection among the typical IoT node and the blockchain. This bridge is constructed by determining the confidence value among each pair of nodes. In findings, the node authentication technique of the concept and the proxy node selection process build a safe channel for communication between nodes. This is built on the modified blockchain. Considerations like the storage overhead and cost of communication imposed by the provided integrated authentication technique are utilized to determine the total efficacy of the approach.

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    Mahyar Sadrishojaei

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Sadrishojaei, M., Kazemian, F. Development of an Enhanced Blockchain Mechanism for Internet of Things Authentication. Wireless Pers Commun 132, 2543–2561 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-023-10731-7

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