Designing a Decentralized IoT-WSN Architecture Using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

In this chapter, we use blockchain technology to illustrate the design tenets and dimensions of a decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) – Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) architecture. The IoT-WSN&s;s planned design has major limitations that prohibit it from expanding, endangering both its security and privacy. By establishing a decentralized, secure, and private network, blockchain technology can offer answers to the problems we are now facing. This chapter outlines a plan for creating an IoT-WSN architecture based on blockchain technology, which, if adopted, might improve the security and privacy of the IoT-WSN infrastructure that presently exists. The chapter also discusses the drawbacks and limitations of the suggested design and offers some suggestions for the direction the research community should take in the future.