Blockchain—Internet of Things applications: Opportunities and challenges for industry 4.0 and society 5.0

AK Tyagi, S Dananjayan, D Agarwal, HF Thariq Ahmed - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Today, blockchain is becoming more popular in academia and industry because it is a
distributed, decentralised technology which is changing many industries in terms of security …

[HTML][HTML] Citizens' data privacy in China: The state of the art of the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)

I Calzada - Smart Cities, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) was launched on 1 November 2021 in
China. This article provides a state-of-the-art review of PIPL through a policy analysis. This …

[HTML][HTML] A new blockchain-based authentication framework for secure IoT networks

AK Al Hwaitat, MA Almaiah, A Ali, S Al-Otaibi… - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Most current research on decentralized IoT applications focuses on a specific vulnerability.
However, for IoT applications, only a limited number of techniques are dedicated to handling …

P2B-Trace: Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-based Contact Tracing to Combat Pandemics

Z Peng, C Xu, H Wang, J Huang, J Xu… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The eruption of a pandemic, such as COVID-19, can cause an unprecedented global crisis.
Contact tracing, as a pillar of communicable disease control in public health for decades …

A comprehensive analysis of privacy protection techniques developed for COVID-19 pandemic

A Majeed, SO Hwang - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the emergence of coronavirus disease–2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, every country has
implemented digital solutions in the form of mobile applications, web-based frameworks …

[HTML][HTML] Security of a PUF mutual authentication and session key establishment protocol for IoT devices

DZ Sun, Y Tian - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, Zerrouki et al. proposed a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) mutual
authentication and session key establishment protocol for IoT (Internet of Things) devices …

Comparing Efficiency and Performance of IoT BLE and RFID-Based Systems for Achieving Contact Tracing to Monitor Infection Spread among Hospital and Office …

MEG Gendy, P Tham, F Harrison, MR Yuce - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 is highly contagious and spreads rapidly; it can be transmitted through coughing
or contact with virus-contaminated hands, surfaces, or objects. The virus spreads faster …

Securing Fog Computing Through Consortium Blockchain Integration: The Proof of Enhanced Concept (PoEC) Approach

MA Almaiah, T Alkdour - … in Multimedia Data Processing and Security …, 2023 - igi-global.com
The authors have developed an innovative topology by amalgamating consortium
blockchain, often referred to as supervisory blockchain, with fog computing. The proposed …

High-performance BFT consensus for Metaverse through block linking and shortcut loop

R Hao, C Ding, X Dai, H Fan, J **ang - Computer Communications, 2025 - Elsevier
In recent years, the Metaverse has captured increasing attention. As the foundational
technologies for these digital realms, blockchain systems and their critical component–the …

FedCTQ: A Federated-Based Framework for Accurate and Efficient Contact Tracing Query

Z Zeng, Z Fang, L Chen, Y Gao… - 2024 IEEE 40th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact tracing query (CTQ) plays a crucial role in the prevention of epidemic diseases. In
real-world applications, user trajectory, encompassing a wealth of sensitive information, is …