2134/38241
Yongxu Zhu
Yongxu
Zhu
Gan Zheng
Gan
Zheng
Kai-Kit Wong
Kai-Kit
Wong
Blockchain-empowered decentralized storage in air-to-ground industrial networks
Loughborough University
2019
Blockchain
Cournot model
Industrial Internet of Thing (IoT)
Stochastic geometry
Smart contract
Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
2019-07-08 11:13:49
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Blockchain-empowered_decentralized_storage_in_air-to-ground_industrial_networks/9577067
Blockchain has created a revolution in digital networking by using distributed storage, cryptographic algorithms, and smart contracts. Many areas are benefiting from this technology, including data integrity and security, as well as authentication and authorization. Internet of Things (IoTs) networks often suffers from such security issues, which is slowing down wide-scale adoption. In this paper, we describe the employing of blockchain technology to construct a decentralized platform for storing and trading information in the air-to-ground IoT heterogeneous network. To allow both air and ground sensors to participate in the decentralized network, we design a mutual-benefit consensus process to create uneven equilibrium distributions of resources among the participants. We use a Cournot model to optimize the active density factor set in the heterogeneous air network and then employ a Nash equilibrium to balance the number of ground sensors, which is influenced by the achievable average downlink rate between the air sensors and the ground supporters. Finally, we provide numerical results to demonstrate the beneficial properties of the proposed consensus process for air-to-ground networks and show the maximum active sensor's density utilization of air networks to achieve a high quality of service.