Blockchain and Fog Based Architecture for Internet of Everything in Smart Cities

Parminder Singh, Anand Nayyar, Avinash Kaur and Uttam Ghosh
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Parminder Singh: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab 144411, India
Anand Nayyar: Graduate School and International School, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam
Avinash Kaur: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab 144411, India
Uttam Ghosh: Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA

Future Internet, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: Fog computing (FC) is used to reduce the energy consumption and latency for the heterogeneous communication approaches in the smart cities’ applications of the Internet of Everything (IoE). Fog computing nodes are connected through wired or wireless medium. The goal of smart city applications is to develop the transaction relationship of real-time response applications. There are various frameworks in real-world to support the IoE in smart-cities but they face the issues like security, platform Independence, multi-application assistance, and resource management. This article is motivated from the Blockchain and Fog computing technologies and presents a secured architecture Blockchain and Fog-based Architecture Network (BFAN) for IoE applications in the smart cities. The proposed architecture secures sensitive data with encryption, authentication, and Blockchain. It assists the System-developers and Architects to deploy the applications in smart city paradigm. The goal of the proposed architecture is to reduce the latency and energy, and ensure improved security features through Blockchain technology. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed architecture performs better than the existing frameworks for smart-cities.

Keywords: fog computing; blockchain; Internet of Everything (IoE); smart city; communication and computing; security; BFAN (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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