# Gaba 2023 — Holochain DHT + IoT Security (IEEE Access)
## Bibliographic Metadata

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Authors | Gagandeep Singh Gaba, Gulshan Kumar, Tai-hoon Kim, Reji Thomas |
| Title | Holochain: A Sustainable Distributed Ledger Technology for IoT Security and Privacy |
| Journal | IEEE Access |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 11 |
| DOI | 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3295589 |
| IEEE Xplore | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10189589 |
| Direct PDF | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10189589 |
| Open Access | Yes (IEEE Access is fully open access) |

## Abstract (Summary)
This paper proposes using Holochain — a distributed hash table (DHT) based agent-centric
architecture — as a security framework for IoT systems. Unlike blockchain, Holochain does not
require global consensus; each agent maintains its own chain, enabling scalable, peer-validated
data integrity. The paper addresses privacy, access control, and lightweight cryptographic
verification suitable for resource-constrained IoT devices.

## Key Topics
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for IoT
- Holochain DHT agent-centric architecture
- IoT security and privacy
- Decentralized identity and access control
- Lightweight cryptography for constrained devices

## Relevance to Research
Directly relevant to research on decentralized multi-agent orchestration: Holochain's
agent-centric DHT model parallels the Agent Card / peer-discovery model in A2A, and its
security properties (per-agent chain, gossip validation) inform distributed trust models
for IoT multi-agent systems.

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