Decentralized cellular networks: towards blockchain enabled cellular overlays
- Autores: Steven Randall Platt
- Directores de la Tesis: Miquel Oliver Riera (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2021
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Jesús Alonso Zárate (presid.), Boris Bellalta i Jiménez (secret.), Dionysis Xenakis (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
This thesis undertakes an investigation into the fit and utility of blockchain technologies within cellular networks. The core of this writing is a new 5G core network blockchain designed to be compatible with, and paired as storage for 3GPP-compliant virtual network functions. Compatibility of the blockchain design is delivered by inheriting a number of behaviors from wireless network operation, including a CSMA/CD mechanism of congestion control; a first for a blockchain design. At the carrier level, a deployment model compatible with ETSI General Autonomous Network Architecture is presented to enable decentralized service overlays. At the network edge, a novel model of transition learning allows fluid roaming of user-equipment across network boundaries. At the conclusion, the theory is combined, to reveal a model of decentralized overlays, which at the user equipment, functions in a manner similar to FM radio. A network channel radio of sorts for decentralized cellular access.
