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Blockchain-Empowered Decentralized Storage in Air-to-Ground Industrial Networks

Zhu, Y; Zheng, G; Wong, K-K; (2019) Blockchain-Empowered Decentralized Storage in Air-to-Ground Industrial Networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics , 15 (6) pp. 3593-3601. 10.1109/TII.2019.2903559. Green open access

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Abstract

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.

Type: Article
Title: Blockchain-Empowered Decentralized Storage in Air-to-Ground Industrial Networks
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2903559
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2019.2903559
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Blockchain, Industrial IoT, Stochastic Geometry, Cournot model, smart contract.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077920
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