Holochain-Based Secure and Energy Efficient IoT Network

The security and performance of a microservicebased IoT platform rank among the top significant factors impacting the IoT clients within the network. It is also the case that the energy consumption of such a network has become a critical topic and is greatly under scrutiny. Therefore, it is necessary to design the network to protect against cyberattacks and keep energy consumption at the lowest possible level while maintaining higher system performance. A new Holochain architecture for IoT security is proposed in this paper. A Blockchain network memory usage and energy consumption for IoT data transmission are compared side by side with a Holochain-based IoT-microservice platform. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed Holochain framework, when the network traffic is over 300 calls, achieves over $60 \%$ less energy consumption, and $\mathbf{5 0 \%}$ more performance which proves better scalability than the Blockchain network.