Blockchain Technology and the Internet of Things

The aims of this course are:

• To introduce the Internet of things.
• To learn the IoT applications and communications and protocols.
• To point out the security issues of IoT.

Upon the successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• understand that the Internet of Things is a revolutionary way of architecting and implementing systems and services based on evolutionary change.
• have a panoramic view of the IoT landscape and focus on the overall technological architecture and design of a tentatively unified IoT system from a middleware perspective.
• understand different types of blockchain protocols and technology.
• discuss security issues of the integration of the blockchain with the IoT.
• investigate future research directions of blockchain with IoT.

Textbooks:

1. The Internet of Things in the Cloud: A middleware perspective, Honbo Zhou, CRC Press, October 29, 2012
2. Blockchain Technology in Internet of Things, Liehuang Zhu, Keke Gai, Meng Li, Springer Press, 2018

References:

1. The era of Internet of Things: Towards a smart world, Khaled Salah Mohamed, Springer Press, 2019
2. Blockchain for Dummies, by Tiana Laurence, Wiley Press, 2016