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Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
As a trending and interesting research topic, in recent years, researchers have been adopting the blockchain in the wireless ad-hoc environment. Owing to its strong characteristics, such as consensus, immutability, finality, and provenance, the blockchain is utilized not only as a secure data storag...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7038462/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32012774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20030698 |
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author | Lwin, May Thura Yim, Jinhyuk Ko, Young-Bae |
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description | As a trending and interesting research topic, in recent years, researchers have been adopting the blockchain in the wireless ad-hoc environment. Owing to its strong characteristics, such as consensus, immutability, finality, and provenance, the blockchain is utilized not only as a secure data storage for critical data but also as a platform that facilitates the trustless exchange of data between independent parties. However, the main challenge of blockchain application in an ad-hoc network is which kind of nodes should be involved in the validation process and how to adopt the heavy computational complexity of block validation appropriately while maintaining the genuine characteristics of a blockchain. In this paper, we propose the blockchain-based trust management system with a lightweight consensus algorithm in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The proposed scheme provides the distributed trust framework for routing nodes in MANETs that is tamper-proof via blockchain. The optimized link state routing protocol (OLSR) is exploited as a representative protocol to embed the blockchain concept in MANETs. As a securely distributed and trusted platform, blockchain solves most of the security issues in the OLSR, in which every node is performing the security operation individually and in a repetitive manner. Additionally, using predefined principles, the routing nodes in the proposed scheme can collaborate to defend themselves from the attackers in the network. The experimental results show that the proposed consensus algorithm is suitable to be used in the resource-hungry MANET with reduced validation time and less overhead. Meanwhile, the attack detection overhead and time also decrease because the repetitivity of the process is reduced while providing a scalable and distributed trust among the routing nodes. |
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spelling | pubmed-70384622020-03-09 Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Lwin, May Thura Yim, Jinhyuk Ko, Young-Bae Sensors (Basel) Article As a trending and interesting research topic, in recent years, researchers have been adopting the blockchain in the wireless ad-hoc environment. Owing to its strong characteristics, such as consensus, immutability, finality, and provenance, the blockchain is utilized not only as a secure data storage for critical data but also as a platform that facilitates the trustless exchange of data between independent parties. However, the main challenge of blockchain application in an ad-hoc network is which kind of nodes should be involved in the validation process and how to adopt the heavy computational complexity of block validation appropriately while maintaining the genuine characteristics of a blockchain. In this paper, we propose the blockchain-based trust management system with a lightweight consensus algorithm in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The proposed scheme provides the distributed trust framework for routing nodes in MANETs that is tamper-proof via blockchain. The optimized link state routing protocol (OLSR) is exploited as a representative protocol to embed the blockchain concept in MANETs. As a securely distributed and trusted platform, blockchain solves most of the security issues in the OLSR, in which every node is performing the security operation individually and in a repetitive manner. Additionally, using predefined principles, the routing nodes in the proposed scheme can collaborate to defend themselves from the attackers in the network. The experimental results show that the proposed consensus algorithm is suitable to be used in the resource-hungry MANET with reduced validation time and less overhead. Meanwhile, the attack detection overhead and time also decrease because the repetitivity of the process is reduced while providing a scalable and distributed trust among the routing nodes. MDPI 2020-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7038462/ /pubmed/32012774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20030698 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lwin, May Thura Yim, Jinhyuk Ko, Young-Bae Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks |
title | Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks |
title_full | Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks |
title_fullStr | Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks |
title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks |
title_short | Blockchain-Based Lightweight Trust Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks |
title_sort | blockchain-based lightweight trust management in mobile ad-hoc networks |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7038462/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32012774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20030698 |
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