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Jul 2026
EPoLBFT: A Blockchain Consensus Algorithm for Enhancing Privacy, Invulnerability and Trust in IoT System
Elastic Proof-of-Location Byzantine Fault Tolerance is proposed, a privacy-preserving and location-aware blockchain consensus framework for IoT systems that reduces communication overhead and improves consensus efficiency compared with conventional PBFT-based approaches while strengthening resilience against location-based and identity-based attacks.
Yunus Kareem, D. Djenouri, Essam Ghadafi
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