A Survey on Security Threats in Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems

Donghee Kim; Junbeom Hur

doi:10.1109/ICTC55196.2022.9952581

A Survey on Security Threats in Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems

Donghee Kim, Junbeom Hur

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

The Blockchain-based Internet of Things (BIoT) systems are widely used in diverse industrial fields including agriculture, healthcare, sports business, and so on. However, since the Internet of Things (IoT) devices composing the BIoT systems typically have limited computation and communication resources, the IoT systems are likely to be exposed to various security threats. Lightweight blockchain can provide increased security, privacy, scalability and performance to the IoT systems. However, blockchain itself still has lots of security threats and vulnerability issues depending on its applications. Therefore, in-depth investigation of the security and potential vulnerability of blockchain is important to the secure BIoT systems. In this paper, we explore the security threats of the four layers of the BIoT systems, which is physical layer, network layer, blockchain layer and application layer. We then discuss its implication and future work in the BIoT security literature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICTC 2022 - 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence
Subtitle of host publication	Accelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	2134-2138
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665499392
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC55196.2022.9952581
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2022 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2022 Oct 19 → 2022 Oct 21

Publication series

Name	International Conference on ICT Convergence
Volume	2022-October
ISSN (Print)	2162-1233
ISSN (Electronic)	2162-1241

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2022
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju Island
Period	22/10/19 → 22/10/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by IITP grant funded by the MSIT, Korea (No.2019-0-00533, 2022-0-00411, IITP-2022-2021-0-01810) and Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Korea (NRF-2021R1A6A1A13044830).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.

Keywords

attack
Blockchain
IoT
security
vulnerability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications

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Kim, D., & Hur, J. (2022). A Survey on Security Threats in Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems. In ICTC 2022 - 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence: Accelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation (pp. 2134-2138). (International Conference on ICT Convergence; Vol. 2022-October). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC55196.2022.9952581

A Survey on Security Threats in Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems. / Kim, Donghee; Hur, Junbeom.
ICTC 2022 - 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence: Accelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation. IEEE Computer Society, 2022. p. 2134-2138 (International Conference on ICT Convergence; Vol. 2022-October).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Kim, D & Hur, J 2022, A Survey on Security Threats in Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems. in ICTC 2022 - 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence: Accelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation. International Conference on ICT Convergence, vol. 2022-October, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 2134-2138, 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2022, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 22/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC55196.2022.9952581

Kim D, Hur J. A Survey on Security Threats in Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems. In ICTC 2022 - 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence: Accelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation. IEEE Computer Society. 2022. p. 2134-2138. (International Conference on ICT Convergence). doi: 10.1109/ICTC55196.2022.9952581

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