Blockchain-based Transaction Scheme for Massive MIMO Channel Estimation
Yu Huang, Hui Zhi · 2022
In wireless communication systems, accurate channel estimation is essential to ensure the performance of wireless communication systems. Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (M-MIMO) systems have a dramatic increase in the number of channels to be estimated due to the large number of antennas, which poses a great challenge to the computing resources of the base station, and one solution is offloading these computing tasks of channel estimation to other computing nodes with more computing resources (such as servers). However, in real life, computing nodes are not willing to participate in channel estimation because of their equipment and operation cost. In order to solve this problem, this paper introduces blockchain technology and designs a blockchain-based transaction scheme for channel estimation (BTS-CE) to solve the problem of computing resources transaction for massive MIMO channel estimation, and designs the specific process of the scheme. In order to solve the problem that computing nodes cannot complete the computation task due to failure or malicious disconnection, a task allocation model is designed to assign a computation task to multiple computation nodes. The security of the transactions is guaranteed through the blockchain. Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) consensus mechanism cannot be applied to the public chain due to its low performance caused by a large number of nodes participating in consensus, this problem is solved by selecting some active nodes as consensus nodes. Simulation results show that improved PBFT(IPBFT) is lower in transaction delay and higher in throughput than PoW consensus mechanism.