Smart auto mining (SAM) for industrial IoT blockchain network

Abstract

This work proposes smart auto mining (SAM) for resource-efficient mining in a blockchain network. The SAM algorithm stops the miners when there is zero pending transaction and starts the miner when there is at least one transaction sent into the network. The miner listens to the network to identify when a transaction has been made by a node. The model does not need any instruction to start mining when there is a pending transaction. The results show that a private Ethereum network produced over 300% more blocks in a 12-h period with 599,950 transactions compared to when SAM is applied. The proposed algorithm is also able to reduce the storage used by the chaindata by 14%. The overhead of mining is decreased by reducing the production of empty blocks in the network which saves energy, storage space, network bandwidth and computational complexity.

Resource allocation and passive beamforming for IRS‐assisted short packet systems

“…In recent years, with the development of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) [1,2], some time-sensitive applications have higher requirements for information freshness [3], such as environmental monitoring and precise control [4]. In precise control, command center will give appropriate command information according to current environment, and devices need to obtain latest command information for completing their works.…”