Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CNDS - Xarxes de Computadors i Sistemes Distribuïts
2018
Recently, mesh networking and blockchain are two of the hottest technologies in the telecommunications industry. Combining both can reformulate Internet access. While mesh networking makes connecting to the Internet easy and affordable, blockchain on top of mesh networks makes Internet access profitable by enabling bandwidth-sharing for crypto-tokens. Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. We evaluate HLF in a real production mesh network and in the laboratory. We quantify the performance, bottlenecks and limitations of the current implementation v1.0. We identify the opportunities for improvement to serve the needs of wireless mesh access networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first HLF deployment made in a production wireless mesh network.
Peer Reviewed
Postprint (published version)
Conference report
English
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica; Wireless communication systems; Blockchain; Computer operating systems; Electronic money; Mesh generation; Telecommunication industry; Wireless mesh networks (WMN); Access network; Bandwidth sharing; Internet access; Telecommunications industry; Wireless mesh; MESH networking; Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3211936
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