Towards Blockchain for Decentralized Self-Organizing Wireless Networks
This work addresses the need for blockchain solutions in wireless networks without human-centric incentives, though it appears incremental as it adapts existing blockchain concepts to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of applying blockchain to decentralized wireless networks by introducing Redes Chain, a custom blockchain that eliminates cryptocurrency and contract dependencies, achieving a system designed specifically for machine communications.
Distributed consensus mechanisms have been widely researched and made popular with a number of blockchain-based token applications, such as Bitcoin, and Ethereum. Although these general-purpose platforms have matured for scale and security, they are designed for human incentive and continue to require currency reward and contract functions that are not requisite in machine communications. Redes Chain is a custom designed blockchain, built to support fully decentralized self-organization in wireless networks-without a cryptocurrency or contract dependency.