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Blockchain-based Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Internet of Things (IoT) (2023)
Thesis
Abubakar, M. A. Blockchain-based Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Internet of Things (IoT). (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3406748

Authentication and access control are critical in addressing IoT security and privacy issues. However, due to resource overhead, most legacy authentication and authorisation mechanisms are not suitable for resource-constrained IoT devices (Meneghello... Read More about Blockchain-based Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Internet of Things (IoT).

An Overview of Blockchain-Based IoT Architectures and Designs (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Ali, H., Ghaleb, B., Wadhaj, I., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023). An Overview of Blockchain-Based IoT Architectures and Designs. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems: ICETIS 2022 Volume 1 (596-605). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25274-7_52

In recent years there has been an increased interest in the internet of things and blockchain in both industry and academia. The blockchain is quickly becoming an important technology that will fundamentally alter the method in which people exchange... Read More about An Overview of Blockchain-Based IoT Architectures and Designs.

A Survey on the Integration of Blockchain and IoT: Challenges and Opportunities (2022)
Book Chapter
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Liu, X. (2022). A Survey on the Integration of Blockchain and IoT: Challenges and Opportunities. In R. Jiang, A. Bouridane, C. Li, D. Crookes, S. Boussakta, F. Hao, & E. A. Edirisinghe (Eds.), Big Data Privacy and Security in Smart Cities (197-221). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04424-3_11

Since Satoshi Nakamoto first introduced the blockchain as an open-source project for secure financial transactions, it has attracted the scientific community’s interest, paving the way for addressing problems in domains other than cryptocurrencies, o... Read More about A Survey on the Integration of Blockchain and IoT: Challenges and Opportunities.

A Lightweight and User-centric Two-factor Authentication Mechanism for IoT Based on Blockchain and Smart Contract (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Liu, X. (2022). A Lightweight and User-centric Two-factor Authentication Mechanism for IoT Based on Blockchain and Smart Contract. In 2022 2nd International Conference of Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (SMARTTECH). https://doi.org/10.1109/smarttech54121.2022.00032

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is commonly used in Internet of Things (IoT) authentication to provide multi-layer protection. Tokens, often known as One-Time Passwords (OTP), are used to offer additional information. While this technique provides fl... Read More about A Lightweight and User-centric Two-factor Authentication Mechanism for IoT Based on Blockchain and Smart Contract.

Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., McCarron, P., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, B. (2022). Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates. In 2021 14th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN). https://doi.org/10.1109/SIN54109.2021.9699221

The COVID-19 pandemic has recently emerged as a worldwide health emergency that necessitates coordinated international measures. To contain the virus's spread, governments and health organisations raced to develop vaccines that would lower Covid-19 m... Read More about Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates.

Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2021). Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems. In 2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet). https://doi.org/10.1109/csnet52717.2021.9614646

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the principal signalling protocol in Voice over IP (VoIP) systems, responsible for initialising, terminating, and maintaining sessions amongst call parties. However, the problem with the SIP protocol is that i... Read More about Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems.

A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS). https://doi.org/10.1109/coins51742.2021.9524172

Recent years have seen an increase in medical big data, which can be attributed to a paradigm shift experienced in medical data sharing induced by the growth of medical technology and the Internet of Things. The evidence of this potential has been pr... Read More about A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data.

Blockchain-based identity and authentication scheme for MQTT protocol (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Abdelrazig Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Liu, X. (2021). Blockchain-based identity and authentication scheme for MQTT protocol. In ICBCT '21: 2021 The 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Technology (73-81). https://doi.org/10.1145/3460537.3460549

The publish and subscribe messaging model has proven itself as a dominant messaging paradigm for IoT systems. An example of such is the commonly used Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. However, the security concerns with this protoc... Read More about Blockchain-based identity and authentication scheme for MQTT protocol.

PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work-Based Consensus Mechanism (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M. A., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, B. (2020). PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work-Based Consensus Mechanism. In ICVISP 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3448823.3448875

The original consensus algorithm - Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, among many others. Nevertheless, the concept has received criticisms... Read More about PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work-Based Consensus Mechanism.

PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2020). PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism. In ICVISP 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing. https://doi.org/10.1145/3448823.3448875

The original consensus algorithm-Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, among many others. Nevertheless, the concept has received criticisms o... Read More about PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism.