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Privacy-Preserving Voluntary-Tallying Leader Election For Internet Of Things, Tong Wu, Guomin Yang, Liehuang Zhu, Yulin Wu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The Internet of Things (IoT) is commonly deployed with devices of limited power and computation capability. A centralized IoT architecture provides a simplified management for IoT system but brings redundancy by the unnecessary data traffic with a data center. A decentralized IoT reduces the cost on data traffic and is resilient to the single-point-of failure. The blockchain technique has attracted a large amount of research, which is redeemed as a perspective of decentralized IoT system infrastructure. It also brings new privacy challenges for that the blockchain is a public ledger of all digital events executed and shared among all participants. …