Blockchain-Based Network Slice Broker to Facilitate Factory-As-a-Service

【Author】 Hewa, Tharaka; Porambage, Pawani; Kovacevic, Ivana; Weerasinghe, Nisita; Harjula, Erkki; Liyanage, Madhusanka; Ylianttila, Mika

【Source】IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS

【影响因子】11.648

【Abstract】The novel concept of factory-as-a-service (FaaS) allows the agility of adapting the manufacturing process by identifying the industry's supply chain and user requirements. To cater to FaaS, flexibility in networking and cloud services is a must. 5G network slice broker (NSB) is a third-party mediator that caters to networking resource demand from clients to the service providers. Thus, this article introduces a secure blockchain-based NSB to facilitate FaaS. The proposed secure NSB (SNSB) provides secure, cognitive, and distributed network services for resource allocation and security service level agreement (SSLA) formation with coordination of slice managers and SSLA managers. In SNSB, we introduce a federated slice selection algorithm with Stackelberg game model and reinforcement learning algorithm to compute the real time and the optimal unit price and demand level. We provide an extensive implementation and performance evaluation of SNSB using the slice manager and a custom SSLA manager.

【Keywords】Security; FAA; 5G mobile communication; Blockchains; Computer architecture; Industrial Internet of Things; Resource management; Blockchain; network slice broker; Stackelberg game

【发表时间】2023 JAN

【收录时间】2022-11-30

【文献类型】理论模型

【主题类别】

区块链应用-实体经济-产品管理