Blockchain-based IoT architecture for energy-efficient smart networks

Computer Science Engineering

With the rapid development of the IoT (Internet-of-Things), additional smart gadgets may be associated with the Internet, significantly enhancing data transfer and communication. For the past few years, IoT technology continues to not only gain popularity and importance but also witnesses the true realization of everything being smart. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is known as a new model that separates the control plane and the data plane and is anticipated as a favorable solution for implementing Blockchain, to offer the scalability and adaptability required for IoT. Blockchain and SDN are two top innovations utilized to create secure network architectures and provide trustworthy data transmission. This work provides an optimized Blockchain-based SD IoT architecture for smart networks that is safe and energy-efficient. This work, is concentrated on blockchain-based SDN and creates an SDN-Blockchain Classifier. This IDS-based security tool provides a trust-based classifier by handling and reducing harmful traffic through traffic fusion and aggregation. Finally, it is concluded by evaluating the proposed framework SDN-Blockchain Classifier performance against MAC flooding attack in a simulation setting and demonstrating that it can attain optimized average throughput, response time, packet loss of crossing domain path, energy efficiency, end-to-end delay, file transfer operation, energy consumption, and CPU utilization compared to the baselines taken into consideration, thereby achieving efficacy and also security in the proposed smart network.

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