Ad Hoc Network Transaction Validation via Distributed Ledger
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for sharing services in decentralized networks lack the ability to monitor and validate the amount of service shared, ensuring successful delivery, and tracking devices involved in service sharing, relying on central agents for transaction authenticity.
Innovation Solution
A method and device in an ad hoc network that allows service provider devices to share services with service receiver devices, validating transactions and storing them in a common ledger, enabling transparency and eliminating the need for central agents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a decentralized service sharing system is implemented without central agents, then autonomy and peer-to-peer interaction are improved, but transaction validation and service monitoring become unreliable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a blockchain-based transaction validation mechanism that acts as a decentralized intermediary. The common transaction ledger records and validates service sharing transactions between peer devices without requiring traditional central agents like banks or card processors. Each transaction is cryptographically secured and validated by the network consensus mechanism, providing reliability while maintaining decentralization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where service transactions are continuously monitored, recorded in the blockchain ledger, and validated by network participants. The status messages and transaction records provide real-time feedback about service delivery and consumption, enabling automatic validation and reconciliation without central intervention.
2Measurement precision
If service sharing is monitored and validated in real-time, then transaction accuracy and service tracking are improved, but system complexity and computational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables devices to perform self-validation of service transactions through automated monitoring and reporting mechanisms. Each device independently tracks its own service consumption and generates transaction records, which are then validated by the decentralized network. This self-service approach reduces the need for complex centralized validation infrastructure while maintaining high measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring devices with validation rules, cryptographic keys, and service metering mechanisms before transactions occur. Transaction templates and validation criteria are established in advance, allowing devices to automatically validate and record transactions without complex real-time decision-making, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining accuracy.
3Loss of information
If a common transaction ledger is maintained by all devices, then transparency and trust are improved, but network bandwidth and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the transaction ledger into distributed copies across multiple devices in the network. Each device maintains a local copy of the blockchain ledger, and transactions are propagated through the network in segmented blocks. This segmentation provides transparency through distributed consensus while reducing the burden on any single device and optimizing network bandwidth utilization through efficient data propagation protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure discloses a device and a method for validating transactions pertaining to sharing of one or more services in an ad hoc network, comprising broadcasting amongst plurality of devices, a status message to other devices present in the ad-hoc network, where the plurality of devices comprises at least one service provider device and at least one service receiver device, identifying the at least one service receiver device based on the status message received from the other devices, sharing the one or more services with the at least one service receiver device, validating one or more transactions created by the at least one service provider device and updating a common transaction ledger with one or more validated transactions, where the updated one or more validated transactions are communicated to the other devices in the ad hoc network.