Base Transceiver Station Blockchain for Wireless Networks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Blockchain implementations in telecommunications often result in high latency due to the need for transactions to traverse multiple hops across the Internet, and they are vulnerable to malicious attacks due to their decentralized and generic server-based nature.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a blockchain using multiple base transceiver stations within a wireless telecommunication system, where transactions are processed internally with fewer hops and utilizing specialized hardware components to enhance security.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If blockchain is implemented using generic servers communicating over the Internet, then decentralization and security are improved, but transaction latency increases due to multiple hops

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveblockchain securityVSAvoidtransaction latency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces base transceiver stations as intermediary devices between mobile devices and the blockchain network. These stations establish private wireless communication channels, acting as mediators that reduce the number of hops transactions must traverse. The base transceiver stations maintain blockchain copies locally and can verify transactions within the wireless network before propagating them externally, thereby reducing latency while maintaining security through the intermediary layer.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent adds a new dimensional layer to the blockchain architecture by implementing it at the wireless network edge (base transceiver stations) rather than only at centralized Internet servers. This spatial dimensionality change allows transactions to be processed locally within the wireless network infrastructure, reducing the physical distance and network hops required for transaction propagation while maintaining decentralized security properties.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Reliability

If blockchain uses decentralized generic servers, then security against centralized failure is improved, but vulnerability to malicious attacks increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedecentralization resilienceVSAvoidmalicious attack vulnerability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by implementing blockchain functionality specifically at base transceiver stations, which are controlled entities within the wireless network infrastructure. Rather than using generic decentralized servers uniformly, the solution creates locally optimized blockchain implementations at network edges that benefit from both decentralization (multiple distributed stations) and localized control (within trusted wireless network boundaries), reducing vulnerability to external malicious attacks while maintaining resilience against centralized failure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the blockchain network into multiple independent base transceiver station nodes distributed across the wireless network. Each station maintains its own blockchain copy and can independently verify transactions. This segmentation into controlled, geographically distributed nodes reduces the attack surface compared to a single centralized server, while the segmentation into multiple trusted wireless network nodes provides resilience against centralized failure points.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If blockchain transactions traverse multiple hops across the Internet, then global accessibility is improved, but transaction speed deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveglobal accessVSAvoidtransaction processing speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-establishing blockchain copies and verification capabilities at base transceiver stations before transactions arrive. Mobile devices can transact with any other mobile device served by base transceiver stations in the network without requiring real-time Internet connectivity to external blockchain servers. The base transceiver stations are prepared in advance to validate and propagate transactions locally, enabling high-speed processing while maintaining global accessibility through the wireless network infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10834238B2Blockchain management using a device in a wireless telecommunication system

Publication Date: 2020.11.10 RED HAT INC

AI summary

Devices in a wireless telecommunication system can implement a blockchain that is distributed among the devices. For example, a base transceiver station of the wireless telecommunication system can receive, from a mobile device, a wireless radio communication that includes information associated with a blockchain transaction. The base transceiver station can convert the information associated with the blockchain transaction into an internet protocol (IP)-based format. The base transceiver station can update the blockchain by propagating the formatted information to other base transceiver stations of the wireless telecommunication system through an IP-based network that is internal to the wireless telecommunication system.