Paper Details

Name: Pranav Aggarwal, Azhar, Harshit Gupta & Sanjana Arora
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume No: 13, January, Year: 2026 (Special Issue)
Page Number: 455-462
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19050696

I. ABSTRACT
The rapid advancement of digital technologies in many areas has made establishing secure network access control a matter of high priority, especially in decentralized systems. Traditional access control systems are likely to be plagued by problems like points of single failure, scalability, and susceptibility to cyber attacks. By using decentralization, immutability, and cryptographic techniques, blockchain technology offers an end-toend security paradigm. This paper addresses network access control with blockchain technology, with a focus on decentralized authentication, identity verification, and access control. It explains some blockchain-based models like role-based access control (RBAC), decentralized identifiers (DIDs), and smart contracts. The paper also considers relevant challenges like scalability, compliance with regulatory needs, energy efficiency, and interoperability, and suggests likely solutions. The work further suggests a novel framework for access control based on blockchain, with a mathematical model and assesses performance using simula- tion analyses.
Blockchain, Access Control, Smart Contracts, AI-driven Security, IoT Security, Decentralization, Cybersecurity, Quantum Security, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Edge Computing.