Towards Blockchain-enabled Wireless Mesh Networks


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Kabbinale, Aniruddh Rao 
Ali, Anwaar 
Navarro, Leandro 
Sathiaseelan, Arjuna 
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Recently, mesh networking and blockchain are two of the hottest technologies in the telecommunications industry. Combining both can reformulate internet access and make connecting to the Internet not only easy, but affordable too. 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, quantify its performance, bottlenecks and limitations of the current implementation. 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.

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cs.NI, cs.NI
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