Visible to the public Location-Based Reliable Sharding in Blockchain-Enabled Fog Computing Networks

TitleLocation-Based Reliable Sharding in Blockchain-Enabled Fog Computing Networks
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsHuang, Xiaoge, Yin, Hongbo, Wang, Yongsheng, Chen, Qianbin, Zhang, Jie
Conference Name2022 14th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP)
Date Publishednov
Keywordsblockchain, blockchains, Fog Computing, fog computing network, Internet of Things, pubcrawl, reliability, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, security, Sharding, Signal processing algorithms, simulation, Throughput, Wireless communication
AbstractWith the explosive growth of the internet of things (IoT) devices, there are amount of data requirements and computing tasks. Fog computing network that could provide computing, caching and communication resources closer to IoT devices (ID) is considered as a potential solution to deal with the vast computing tasks. To improve the performance of the fog computing network while ensuring data security, blockchain technology is enabled and a location-based reliable sharding (LRS) algorithm is proposed, which jointly considers the optimal number of shards, the geographical location of fog nodes (FNs), and the number of nodes in each shard. Firstly, the reliable sharding result is based on the reputation values of FNs, which are related to the decision information and historical reputation value of FNs in the consensus process. Moreover, a reputation based PBFT consensus algorithm is adopted to accelerate the consensus process. Furthermore, the normalized entropy is used to estimate the proportion of malicious nodes and optimize the number of shards. Finally, simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
DOI10.1109/WCSP55476.2022.10039136
Citation Keyhuang_location-based_2022