Distributed Ledger Technology and the Internet of Things: A Feasibility Study

Atis Elsts; Efstathios Mitskas; George Oikonomou

doi:10.1145/3282278.3282280

Distributed Ledger Technology and the Internet of Things: A Feasibility Study

Atis Elsts, Efstathios Mitskas, George Oikonomou

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Abstract

Distributed Ledger Technologies have promising applications in the Internet of Things. However, scalability and support for micropayments remain problems for blockchain-based applications, therefore other alternatives such as IOTA should be considered. This work reports on an experimental evaluation of IOTA on several different IoT platforms. We show that even though the communication overhead to join the IOTA network can be significantly reduced by adapting a proxy-based architecture, the computational overhead remains high. We conclude that IOTA is not currently suitable for battery-powered IoT devices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	7-12
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6050-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3282278.3282280
Publication status	Published - 4 Nov 2018

Structured keywords

Digital Health

Keywords

Distributed Ledger Technologies
Internet of Things

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Projects

1 Finished

SPHERE (EPSRC IRC)

Craddock, I. J., Coyle, D. T., Flach, P. A., Kaleshi, D., Mirmehdi, M., Piechocki, R. J., Stark, B. H., Ascione, R., Ashburn, A. M., Burnett, M. E., Aldamen, D., Gooberman-Hill, R. J. S., Harwin, W. S., Hilton, G., Holderbaum, W., Holley, A. P., Manchester, V. A., Meller, B. J., Stack, E. & Gilchrist, I. D.

1/10/13 → 30/09/18

Project: Research, Parent

Prizes

Best paper award

Elsts, Atis (Recipient), Efstathios Mitskas (Recipient) & Oikonomou, George (Recipient), Nov 2018

Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants

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Elsts, A., Mitskas, E., & Oikonomou, G. (2018). Distributed Ledger Technology and the Internet of Things: A Feasibility Study. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (pp. 7-12). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3282278.3282280

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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 7-12.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

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