Performance Analysis and Application of Mobile Blockchain
This addresses security problems in m-commerce for users and developers, but it is incremental as it adapts existing blockchain technology to mobile platforms.
The paper tackles the challenge of applying blockchain technology to mobile commerce (m-commerce) by introducing MobiChain, a new application that enables efficient mining processes on mobile devices, showing through real experiments that blockchain can be an effective security solution for m-commerce.
Mobile security has become more and more important due to the boom of mobile commerce (m-commerce). However, the development of m-commerce is facing many challenges regarding data security problems. Recently, blockchain has been introduced as an effective security solution deployed successfully in many applications in practice, such as, Bitcoin, cloud computing, and Internet-of-Things. However, the blockchain technology has not been adopted and implemented widely in m-commerce because its mining processes usually require to be performed on standard computing units, e.g., computers. Therefore, in this paper, we introduce a new m-commerce application using blockchain technology, namely, MobiChain, to secure transactions in the m-commerce. Especially, in the MobiChain application, the mining processes can be executed efficiently on mobile devices using our proposed Android core module. Through real experiments, we evaluate the performance of the proposed model and show that blockchain will be an efficient security solution for future m-commerce.