Blockchain Secured Auction-Based User Offloading in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

This letter presents a secure user offloading mechanism in heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs), where a macrocell base station (MBS) offloads its users to small cell access points (SCAs) using Vickrey auction. Additionally, a user-in-the-loop (UIL) strategy is exploited to encourage the unserved...

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Published inIEEE wireless communications letters Vol. 9; no. 8; pp. 1141 - 1145
Main Authors Chen, Tianrui, Khan, Amjad Saeed, Zheng, Gan, Lambotharan, Sangarapillai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.08.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Auctioning
Base stations
Blockchain
Cryptography
Macrocell networks
Quality of service
Radio equipment
Security
Security aspects
smart contract
Smart contracts
User offloading
user-in-the-loop
Vickrey auction
Wireless networks
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Summary:This letter presents a secure user offloading mechanism in heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs), where a macrocell base station (MBS) offloads its users to small cell access points (SCAs) using Vickrey auction. Additionally, a user-in-the-loop (UIL) strategy is exploited to encourage the unserved users to move to desired locations for connections. As the participants in the conventional auction-based trading may collude or take selfish actions, we employ Ethereum framework for trustless, secure and distributed auctioning. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed user offloading methodology. The security aspects of the blockchain framework are also discussed.
ISSN:2162-2337
2162-2345
DOI:10.1109/LWC.2020.2982634