Survival Study on Blockchain Based 6G-Enabled Mobile Edge Computation for IoT Automation

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) technology acts as a significant part of daily lives to facilitate control and monitoring of objects to revolutionize the ways that human interacts with physical world. IoT system includes large volume of data with network connectivity, power, and storage resources to transform data into meaningful information. Blockchain has decentralized nature to provide useful mechanism for addressing IoT challenges. Blockchain is distributed ledger with fundamental attributes, namely recorded, transparent, and decentralized. Blockchain formed participants in distributed ledger to record the transactions and communicate with other through trustless method. Security is considered as the most valuable features of Blockchain. IoT and Blockchain are emerging ideas for creating the applications to share the intrinsic features. Several existing works has been developed for the integration of blockchain with IoT. But, Blockchain protocols in the state-of-the-art works with IoT failed to consider the computational loads, delays, and bandwidth overhead which lead to new set of problems. The review estimates main challenges in integration of Blockchain and IoT technologies to attain high-level solutions by addressing the shortcomings and limitations of IoT and Blockchain technologies. INDEX TERMSThe Internet of Things, security, blockchain, transactions, transparent, and decentralized, bandwidth overhead.

6G Enabled Industrial Internet of Everything: Towards a Theoretical Framework

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“…The IIoE needs a variety of technologies complementing each other to deliver the enhancements in agility, efficiency, and automation and requires real-time streaming for actionable intelligence, machine learning capabilities for identifying patterns and predicting behavior, XR (AR/MR/VR) to complement manual guidance and training. The 6GIIoE factory platform [22] (p. 143460), [47] (pp. 2-4) analytics software can achieve the following benefits for many industries: (i) makes IoE simple and easy to deploy without writing code, (ii) connects and manages any asset and analyzes any amount of data automatically in real time, turning data into actionable insights to reduce costs and improve efficiencies to build innovative and differentiating applications, and (iii) continuously improve production processes benefiting to visualize analytics for faster decisions, analyzing to solve problems, and monitoring operational performance.…”

“…6G-enabled IIoE system-based solutions involve many technologies, generating a complex environment. The following are the challenges [22]: …”

“…Hence the authors contend that 6GIIoE system security and privacy concerns must be taken care of prior to user trust in offering the applications. Industries face daunting challenges [22] (pp. 143455-143459) to balance the benefits of new technology and the risk associated with data breaches.…”

Cost-Effective Resource Allocation for Multitier Mobile Edge Computing in 5G Mobile Networks

“…Blockchains will likely support various industries, such as finance, manufacturing, retail, and ICT. MEC servers can act as validators for a blockchain by using their capacity to store the history of transactions [46]. There are multiple applications that can be supported by blockchain technology but have different requirements in terms of speed, security, privacy, scalability, etc.…”