TY  - JOUR
PB  - IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
N2  - Blockchain has raised an evolution in the cyber
network by using distributed storage, cryptography algorithms
and smart contract. Many areas are benefiting from this technology, such as data integrity, security as well as authentication
and authorization. Internet of Things network is often suffering
from such security issues, obstructing its development in scales.
In this paper, we employ blockchain technology to construct a
decentralized platform for storing and trading information in the
air-to-ground IoT heterogeneous network. To make both air and
ground sensors trading in the decentralized network, we design
a mutual benefit consensus process to the uneven equilibrium
distribution of resources among the participators. We use the
Cournot model to optimize the active density factor set in the
heterogeneous air network and then employ Nash equilibrium
to balance the number of ground supporters, which is subject
to the achievable average downlink rate between the air sensors
and the ground sensors. Finally, numerical results are provided to
demonstrate the beneficial properties of the proposed consensus
process for air-to-ground network, and show the maximum active
sensors density utilization of air network to achieve a higher
quality of service.
ID  - discovery10077920
KW  - Blockchain
KW  -  Industrial IoT
KW  -  Stochastic Geometry
KW  -  Cournot model
KW  -  smart contract.
AV  - public
Y1  - 2019/06//
EP  - 3601
TI  - Blockchain-Empowered Decentralized Storage in Air-to-Ground Industrial Networks
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2019.2903559
SN  - 1941-0050
A1  - Zhu, Y
A1  - Zheng, G
A1  - Wong, K-K
JF  - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
SP  - 3593
VL  - 15
IS  - 6
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ER  -