Blockchain Footprint and Architectures for Smart Cities
Congratulations to Usman Khalil for publishing two journal papers in Sensors and IEEE Access
PhD Researcher Usman Khalil has written two review papers on blockchain titled:
In this paper, Usman and his team
provide an updated review of authentication mechanisms by categorizing centralized and distributed architectures.
discuss the security issues regarding the authentication of these IoT-enabled smart devices.
evaluate and analyze the study of the proposed literature schemes that pose authentication challenges in terms of computational costs, communication overheads, and models applied to attain robustness. Hence, lightweight solutions in managing, maintaining, processing, and storing authentication data of IoT-enabled assets are an urgent need.
From an integration perspective, cloud computing has provided strong support. In contrast, decentralized ledger technology, i.e., blockchain, light-weight cryptosystems, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions, are the areas with much more to explore.
Finally, discuss the future research challenges, which will eventually help address the ambiguities for improvement.
- excerpt from paper abstract
A Blockchain Footprint for Authentication of IoT-Enabled Smart Devices in Smart Cities: State-of-the-Art Advancements, Challenges and Future Research Directions, published at IEEE Access
In this paper, Usman and his team
provide an updated review of authentication mechanisms developed on blockchain technology that enforce decentralized architectures.
discuss the security issues regarding the authentication of these IoT-enabled smart devices.
evaluate and analyze the study of the proposed literature schemes that pose authentication challenges in terms of computational costs, communication overheads, and models applied to attain robustness. Hence, lightweight solutions for managing, maintaining, processing, and storing authentication data of IoT-enabled assets are a must.
From an integration perspective, cloud computing has provided strong support. In contrast, decentralized ledger technology, i.e., Blockchain, and lightweight cryptosystems are the areas for much more to explore.
Finally, discuss the future research challenges, which present an improvement standpoint to help address the ambiguities.
- excerpt from paper abstract
Usman is currently under the supervision of Dr Owais Malik and Dr Wee Hong Ong.
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