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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

BFT-IoMT: A Blockchain-Based Trust Mechanism to Mitigate Sybil Attack Using Fuzzy Logic in the Internet of Medical Things.

Shayan E Ali, Noshina Tariq, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Muhammad Ashraf, Wadood Abdul, Kashif Saleem

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Shayan E AliDepartment of Computer Sciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Noshina TariqDepartment of Avionics Engineering, Air University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-9754-253X
Farrukh Aslam KhanCenter of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh 11653, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7023-7172
Muhammad AshrafDepartment of Avionics Engineering, Air University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Wadood AbdulDepartment of Computer Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6871-6633
Kashif SaleemCenter of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh 11653, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8062-3301

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Abstract

Numerous sensitive applications, such as healthcare and medical services, need reliable transmission as a prerequisite for the success of the new age of communications technology. Unfortunately, these systems are highly vulnerable to attacks like Sybil, where many false nodes are created and spread with deceitful intentions. Therefore, these false nodes must be instantly identified and isolated from the network due to security concerns and the sensitivity of data utilized in healthcare applications. Especially for life-threatening diseases like COVID-19, it is crucial to have devices connected to the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) that can be believed to respond with high reliability and accuracy. Thus, trust-based security offers a safe environment for IoMT applications. This study proposes a blockchain-based fuzzy trust management framework (BFT-IoMT) to detect and isolate Sybil nodes in IoMT networks. The results demonstrate that the proposed BFT-IoMT framework is 25.43% and 12.64%, 12.54% and 6.65%, 37.85% and 19.08%, 17.40% and 8.72%, and 13.04% and 5.05% more efficient and effective in terms of energy consumption, attack detection, trust computation reliability, packet delivery ratio, and throughput, respectively, as compared to the other state-of-the-art frameworks available in the literature.

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BlockchainCOVID-19Internet of ThingsFuzzy LogicHumansReproducibility of ResultsTrustblockchainInternet of Thingslow power and lossy networksSybil attacktrust

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PMCPMC10181539

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