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Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 14219

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Satyabrata Aich

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Department of Computer Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae 197, Korea
Interests: artificial intelligence; blockchain; biomedical signal processing; machine learning; Internet of Things
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Dr. Sushanta Tripathy

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School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India
Interests: machine learning; blockchain technology; sustainability; information technology; supply chain management; optimization
Dr. Kamalakanta Muduli

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae 411, Papua New Guinea
Interests: Industry 4.0; blockchain technology; operations management; information technology; supply chain management; decision making
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Blockchain technology has emerged as a new distributed ledger technology that clears the way for data sharing and system management in an immovable and structured manner without the intervention of a central authority. Leveraging the nature of blockchain, industry stakeholders and the research community are increasingly interested in deploying this technology across multiple domains, including healthcare, finance, IoT-based applications, supply chains, digital rights management, and more.

Blockchain technology is leading development in this field and has resulted in the production of secure data management systems. In fact, this new technology has dramatically changed the way data are accessed, stored, and retrieved and how information is shared. Data management using blockchain presents many fundamental research challenges. Furthermore, decentralized trust, and therefore security and privacy, is at the heart of blockchain technology and has the potential to provide new cybersecurity mechanisms for today’s systems.

This Special Issues aims to bring together scholars, professors, researchers, engineers, and administrators investigating and using state-of-the-art technologies and ideas to significantly improve the field of Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security. Topics relevant to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Blockchain use cases in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs);
  • Blockchain for systems managements;
  • Convergence of AI and blockchain;
  • Blockchain for data sharing;
  • Blockchain for trust management;
  • Blockchain for decentralized systems and applications;
  • New threat models and attacks on existing blockchain technologies;
  • Defences and countermeasures for blockchain technologies;
  • Blockchain for IoT applications;
  • Smart contracts and distributed ledgers;
  • Innovative applications driven by blockchain;
  • Blockchain for cybersecurity.

Dr. Satyabrata Aich
Dr. Sushanta Tripathy
Dr. Kamalakanta Muduli
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Keywords

  • blockchain
  • NFT
  • cybersecurity
  • smart contract
  • distributed ledger
  • IoT
  • AI and ML
  • data storage
  • data analytics
  • Industry 4.0

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A Blockchain-Based Framework for Rural Property Rights Transactions
by Caijian Hua, Sichao Wu, Yan Zhang, Kun Luo, Miaomiao Li and Jiaguo Fu
Electronics 2023, 12(20), 4334; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12204334 - 19 Oct 2023
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Currently, there are several issues in China’s rural property rights trading, including poor credit reporting, low transaction efficiency, non-standardized transaction contracts, and high costs for rights protection. However, blockchain technology, known for its convenience, security, and traceability, is highly compatible with the requirements [...] Read more.
Currently, there are several issues in China’s rural property rights trading, including poor credit reporting, low transaction efficiency, non-standardized transaction contracts, and high costs for rights protection. However, blockchain technology, known for its convenience, security, and traceability, is highly compatible with the requirements of standardization, convenience, and agility in rural property rights trading. Therefore, we propose a system framework for rural property rights trading based on the Hyperledger Fabric consortium blockchain. This framework significantly enhances transaction efficiency, improves the security of rural property rights trading, effectively resolves contract disputes in property rights transactions, and promotes rural revitalization and development. Furthermore, we design the information data structure on the blockchain, present the information flow, and develop smart contracts that utilize automation capabilities to automatically summarize, analyze, and issue alerts based on on-chain data, enabling risk assessment for both buyers and sellers. Additionally, we introduce an improved PBFT consensus algorithm called CA-PBFT, which is based on the PBFT consensus protocol and integrates a scoring model and simplified consensus protocol. CA-PBFT efficiently reduces transaction response latency and improves information throughput. Finally, we develop a prototype system for rural property rights trading and perform a performance comparison and analysis of CA-PBFT against other PBFT-based consensus algorithms in this prototype system. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the prototype system framework for rural property rights trading. Full article
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A New Blockchain-Based Authentication Framework for Secure IoT Networks
by Ahmad K. Al Hwaitat, Mohammed Amin Almaiah, Aitizaz Ali, Shaha Al-Otaibi, Rima Shishakly, Abdalwali Lutfi and Mahmaod Alrawad
Electronics 2023, 12(17), 3618; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12173618 - 27 Aug 2023
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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 privacy and trust concerns. To address that, blockchain-based solutions that improve the quality of IoT networks are [...] Read more.
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 privacy and trust concerns. To address that, blockchain-based solutions that improve the quality of IoT networks are becoming increasingly used. In the context of IoT security, a blockchain-based authentication framework could be used to store and verify the identities of devices in a decentralized manner, allowing them to communicate with each other and with external systems in a secure and trust-less manner. The main issues in the existing blockchain-based IoT system are the complexity and storage overhead. To solve these research issues, we have proposed a unique approach for a massive IoT system based on a permissions-based blockchain that provides data storage optimization and a lightweight authentication mechanism to the users. The proposed method can provide a solution to most of the applications which rely on blockchain technology, especially in assisting with scalability and optimized storage. Additionally, for the first time, we have integrated homomorphic encryption to encrypt the IoT data at the user’s end and upload it to the cloud. The proposed method is compared with other benchmark frameworks based on extensive simulation results. Our research contributes by designing a novel IoT approach based on a trust-aware security approach that increases security and privacy while connecting outstanding IoT services. Full article
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A Framework for Data Privacy Preserving in Supply Chain Management Using Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Algorithm with Ethereum Blockchain Technology
by Yedida Venkata Rama Subramanya Viswanadham and Kayalvizhi Jayavel
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1404; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061404 - 15 Mar 2023
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Blockchain is a recently developed advanced technology. It has been assisted by a lot of interest in a decentralized and distributed public ledger system integrated as a peer-to-peer network. A tamper-proof digital framework is created for sharing and storing data, where the linked [...] Read more.
Blockchain is a recently developed advanced technology. It has been assisted by a lot of interest in a decentralized and distributed public ledger system integrated as a peer-to-peer network. A tamper-proof digital framework is created for sharing and storing data, where the linked block structure is utilized to verify and store the data. A trusted consensus method has been adopted to synchronize the changes in the original data. However, it is challenging for Ethereum to maintain security at all blockchain levels. As such, “public–private key cryptography” can be utilized to provide privacy over Ethereum networks. Several privacy issues make it difficult to use blockchain approaches over various applications. Another issue is that the existing blockchain systems operate poorly over large-scale data. Owing to these issues, a novel blockchain framework in the Ethereum network with soft computing is proposed. The major intent of the proposed technology is to preserve the data for transmission purposes. This new model is enhanced with the help of a new hybrid algorithm: Adaptive Border Collie Rain Optimization Algorithm (ABC-ROA). This hybrid algorithm generates the optimal key for data restoration and sanitization. Optimal key generation is followed by deriving the multi objective constraints. Here, some of the noteworthy objectives, such as information preservation (IP) rate, degree of modification (DM), false rule (FR) generation, and hiding failure (HF) rate are considered. Finally, the proposed method is successfully implemented, and its results are validated through various measures. The recommended module ensures a higher security level for data sharing. Full article
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CBCS: A Scalable Consortium Blockchain Architecture Based on World State Collaborative Storage
by Jiashun Zhou, Na Wang, Aodi Liu, Wenjuan Wang and Xuehui Du
Electronics 2023, 12(3), 735; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030735 - 1 Feb 2023
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In the big data environment, data are characterized by a large volume, various types, and rapid changes. The consortium blockchain applied in this environment faces the problem of excessive storage of the ledger, and the ledger handling different types of business needs to [...] Read more.
In the big data environment, data are characterized by a large volume, various types, and rapid changes. The consortium blockchain applied in this environment faces the problem of excessive storage of the ledger, and the ledger handling different types of business needs to be isolated to ensure the ledger’s security. To this end, this paper proposes a scalable consortium blockchain architecture based on world state collaborative storage (CBCS). First, a business world state database update method is designed based on sparse Merkle multiproofs, where the collaborative storage of world state is realized under the premise of mutual isolation of the ledger between business domains. Then, a world state consistency verification method based on the rank B+ tree is designed to verify the consistency of the business world state in business domains by the checking sidechain, and a main-side chain cross-anchoring structure is designed to realize secure anchoring of the mainchain and the checking sidechain. Meanwhile, a blockchain transaction trusted tracing method based on two-level certification is developed to enable business nodes to obtain complete blockchain transactions. Finally, the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed mechanism to solve the storage scalability problem in the consortium blockchain are verified through experiments. Full article
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