Tikiri—Towards a lightweight blockchain for IoT

Bandara, Eranga; Tosh, Deepak; Foytik, Peter; Shetty, Sachin; Ranasinghe, Nalin; De Zoysa, Kasun

doi:10.1016/j.future.2021.02.006

Tikiri—Towards a lightweight blockchain for IoT

Journal Article · Mon Feb 15 23:00:00 EST 2021 · Future Generations Computer Systems

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2021.02.006· OSTI ID:1849304

Bandara, Eranga ^[1]; Tosh, Deepak ^[2]; Foytik, Peter ^[3]; Shetty, Sachin ^[3]; Ranasinghe, Nalin ^[4]; De Zoysa, Kasun ^[4]

Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States); Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
Univ. of Texas at El Paso, TX (United States)
Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
Univ. of Colombo (Sri Lanka). School of Computing

Internet of Things (IoT) platforms have been deployed in several domains to enhance efficiency of business process and improve productivity. Most IoT platforms comprise of heterogeneous software and hardware components which can potentially introduce security and privacy challenges. Blockchain technology has been proposed as one of the solutions to realize IoT security by leveraging the (a) Immutable ledger, (b) Decentralized architecture and (c) Strong cryptography primitives. However, integrating blockchain platforms with IoT based applications presents several challenges due to lack of (a) acceptable performance on resource-constrained devices, (b) high transaction throughput, (c) keyword-based search and retrieve, (d) transaction back pressure operations, and (e) real-time response. In this paper, we propose a lightweight blockchain platform, “Tikiri”, for resource-constrained IoT devices. Tikiri uses Apache Kafka for the consensus and proposes new blockchain architecture to handle real-time transaction execution on the blockchain. Tikiri is characterized by functional programming and actor-based smart contract platform that realizes concurrent execution of transactions in the blockchain. Tikiri realizes a lightweight and scalable blockchain that can provides performance on the resource-constrained IoT devices.

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Research Organization:: Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)

Grant/Contract Number:: FE0031744

OSTI ID:: 1849304

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1776470
OSTI ID: 2502102

Journal Information:: Future Generations Computer Systems, Journal Name: Future Generations Computer Systems Journal Issue: C Vol. 119; ISSN 0167-739X

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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