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

Donghee Kim, Junbeom Hur

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICTC 2022 - 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence
Subtitle of host publicationAccelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2134-2138
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665499392
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2022 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2022 Oct 192022 Oct 21

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on ICT Convergence
Volume2022-October
ISSN (Print)2162-1233
ISSN (Electronic)2162-1241

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2022
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period22/10/1922/10/21

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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