Abstract
Blockchain is an emerging field of study in a number of applications and domains. Especially when combine with Internet of Things (IoT) this become truly transformative, opening up new plans of action, improving engagement and revolutionizing many sectors including agriculture. IoT devices are intelligent and have high critical capabilities but low-powered and have less storage, and face many challenges when used in isolation. Maintaining the network and consuming IoT energy by means of redundant or fabricated data transfer lead to consumption of high energy and reduce the life of IoT network. Therefore, an appropriate routing scheme should be in place to ensure consistency and energy efficiency in an IoT network. This research proposes an efficient routing scheme by integrating IoT with Blockchain for distributed nodes which work in a distributed manner to use the communicating links efficiently. The proposed protocol uses smart contracts within heterogeneous IoT networks to find a route to Base Station (BS). Each node can ensure route from an IoT node to sink then base station and permits IoT devices to collaborate during transmission. The proposed routing protocol removes redundant data and blocks IoT architecture attacks and leads to lower consumption of energy and improve the life of network. The performance of this scheme is compared with our existing scheme IoT-based Agriculture and LEACH in Agriculture. Simulation results show that integrating IoT with Blockchain scheme is more efficient, uses low energy, improves throughput and enhances network lifetime.
Highlights
Internet of Things (IoT) has started to play a major role in our daily life in recent years, extending our perceptions and the ability to modify the environment around us [1]
100 IoT nodes are randomly installed at cluster farm of 500×500m2with four sink, and one Base Station (BS) is located outdoor. 5000 rounds were considered in each simulation technique
To assess the efficiency of our proposed scheme BlockChain with IoT it is compared with the current Low energy adoptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) protocol applied in Energy consumption Energy consumption in networks is a major problem and a very important part of protocol development, system design and performance evaluation
Summary
IoT has started to play a major role in our daily life in recent years, extending our perceptions and the ability to modify the environment around us [1]. Smart farming is categorized by the high density of IoT nodes in wide range placements It generally results in heavy data sharing, which directly induces network crowding, radio interfering, latency issues and high energy usage [10]. Blockchain is the evolutionary step for smart agriculture This technology has great potential for smart farming and allows data sharing more transparent, safe and effective for smart farming. Blockchain technology will make IoT data routing more secure and can block attacks on the IoT network especially in agriculture domain because according to our knowledge extracted from literature this problem in smart farming for developing appropriate routing protocols was never been undertaken. This research presents a novel routing scheme IoT with BlockChain that will be a feasible routing communication scheme by getting IoT nodes on the blockchain which make the routing data more secure and purified while IoT network with low energy consumption than that of existing networks
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