A novel Dual-Blockchained structure for contract-theoretic LoRa-based information systems

【Author】 Yu, Guangsheng; Zhang, Litianyi; Wang, Xu; Yu, Kan; Ni, Wei; Zhang, J. Andrew; Liu, Ren Ping

【Source】INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT

【影响因子】7.466

【Abstract】LoRa serves as one of the most deployed technologies in Internet-of-Things-based information systems (IoT-IS), and self-motivated deployment is the key to the rollout of LoRa. Proper incentive can play an important role in encouraging the private deployment of LoRa, increasing coverage and promoting effective management of IoT-IS. However, existing incentive mechanisms have the vulnerabilities of insecure centralized architecture and excessive utility loss of LoRa Controllers and Gateways, due to asymmetric information between private owners of gateways and centralized controller (or service providers). Blockchain-based LoRa networks, as a promising solution, have not been comprehensively studied to address the vulnerabilities, let alone the other issues of security, scalability, and flexibility. In this paper, we propose a novel Dual-Chained LoRa-based information system (LoRa-IS) to provide globally crossvalidated security. Behaviors, including state-of-the-art contract-theoretic incentive mechanism and new flow control protocol, can be secured with the tamper-resistance of Blockchains. Being part of the proposed incentive mechanism, the new self-driven flow control allows both the Dual-Chain system and the LoRa network to scale. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed system is the first comprehensive Blockchain-based LoRa-IS combined with contract theory. We also provide analysis and simulations, showing that our system can pay fair incentives under information asymmetry. With the new flow control, the system can optimize network coverage while improving the Blockchain scalability and flexibility.

【Keywords】Information system; Internet-of-Things (IoT); Incentive mechanism; Contract theory; LoRa; Blockchain

【发表时间】2021 MAY

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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