{"title":"Constructing Next-Generation IoT Security: Embedded Smart Contracts and Multilayer Security Protection","authors":"Linchao Zhang;Lei Hang;Keke Zu;Yi Wang;Kun Yang","doi":"10.1109/JIOT.2025.3541256","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, interconnectivity between devices has become increasingly widespread. However, traditional IoT security measures struggle to cope with increasingly complex security threats and cannot fully exploit the advantages of interconnectivity due to the limited computational resources of the devices. To address this, we propose a blockchain-based IoT security framework comprising wallet component, smart contract component, multilayer security component, and common component. This framework, designed for resource-constrained environments and embedded into cellular communication modules, enables multiend offloading of computational tasks and secure transmission for IoT devices. Experimental results show that the data processing capability of the decentralized network architecture based on this framework is improved by 115.06% compared to traditional methods, enhances the security and autonomy of IoT devices, and significantly strengthens the degree of IoT decentralization. This provides a valuable reference for designing next-generation IoT security architectures.","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":"12 12","pages":"19716-19731"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10883343/","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, interconnectivity between devices has become increasingly widespread. However, traditional IoT security measures struggle to cope with increasingly complex security threats and cannot fully exploit the advantages of interconnectivity due to the limited computational resources of the devices. To address this, we propose a blockchain-based IoT security framework comprising wallet component, smart contract component, multilayer security component, and common component. This framework, designed for resource-constrained environments and embedded into cellular communication modules, enables multiend offloading of computational tasks and secure transmission for IoT devices. Experimental results show that the data processing capability of the decentralized network architecture based on this framework is improved by 115.06% compared to traditional methods, enhances the security and autonomy of IoT devices, and significantly strengthens the degree of IoT decentralization. This provides a valuable reference for designing next-generation IoT security architectures.
期刊介绍:
The EEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal publishes articles and review articles covering various aspects of IoT, including IoT system architecture, IoT enabling technologies, IoT communication and networking protocols such as network coding, and IoT services and applications. Topics encompass IoT's impacts on sensor technologies, big data management, and future internet design for applications like smart cities and smart homes. Fields of interest include IoT architecture such as things-centric, data-centric, service-oriented IoT architecture; IoT enabling technologies and systematic integration such as sensor technologies, big sensor data management, and future Internet design for IoT; IoT services, applications, and test-beds such as IoT service middleware, IoT application programming interface (API), IoT application design, and IoT trials/experiments; IoT standardization activities and technology development in different standard development organizations (SDO) such as IEEE, IETF, ITU, 3GPP, ETSI, etc.