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Number 3 - September 2022
Volume 32 - 2022
A holistic study on the use of blockchain technology in CPS and IoT architectures maintaining the CIA triad in data communication
Aniruddha Bhattacharjya
Abstract
Blockchain-based cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and the blockchain Internet of things (BIoT) are two major focuses of
the modern technological revolution. Currently we have security attacks like distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), address
resolution protocol (ARP) spoofing attacks, various phishing and configuration threats, network congestion, etc. on the
existing CPS and IoT architectures. This study conducts a complete survey on the flaws of the present centralized IoT
system’s peer-to-peer (P2P) communication and the CPS architecture’s machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Both
these architectures could use the inherent consensus algorithms and cryptographic advantages of blockchain technology.
To show how blockchain technology can resolve the flaws of the existing CPS and IoT architectures while maintaining
confidentiality, integrity, and availability (the CIA triad), we conduct a holistic survey here on this topic and discuss the
research focus in the domain of the BIoT. Then we analyse the similarities and dissimilarities of blockchain technology in
IoT and CPS architectures. Finally, it is well understood that one should explore whether blockchain technology will give
advantages to CPS and IoT applications through a decision support system (DSS) with a relevant mathematical model, so
here we provide the DSS with such a model for this purpose.
Keywords
CPS, BIoT, blockchain, IIoT, DDoS, ARP spoofing, M2M, P2P, CIA triad