Towards Blockchain-enabled Wireless Mesh Networks

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Conference object , Other literature type 15 Jun 2018Embargo end date: 02 Jul 2018 United Kingdom, Spain Publisher:ACMJournal:Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems

Authors: Selimi, Mennan; Kabbinale, A.R.; Ali, A.; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Sathiaseelan, Arjuna;

doi: 10.1145/3211933.3211936 , 10.17863/cam.25023 , 10.48550/arxiv.1804.00561

arXiv: 1804.00561

handle: 2117/122762

Towards Blockchain-enabled Wireless Mesh Networks

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Abstract

Recently, mesh networking and blockchain are two of the hottest technologies in the telecommunications industry. Combining both can reformulate internet access and make connecting to the Internet not only easy, but affordable too. Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. We evaluate HLF in a real production mesh network and in the laboratory, quantify its performance, bottlenecks and limitations of the current implementation. We identify the opportunities for improvement to serve the needs of wireless mesh access networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first HLF deployment made in a production wireless mesh network.

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United Kingdom, Spain

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Universitat Polite`cnica de Catalunya
Spain
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

Keywords

Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, MESH networking, Access network, cs.NI, Mesh generation, Electronic money, Computer operating systems, Bandwidth sharing, :Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Wireless communication systems, Wireless mesh, Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture, Blockchain, Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de, Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica, Telecommunication industry, Telecommunications industry, Wireless mesh networks (WMN), Internet access

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