Blockchain Data Integrity for Moving Things Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication networks are inadequate for supporting complex networks involving both moving and static nodes, such as the Internet of Moving Things, as they fail to provide reliable, scalable, and secure connectivity and data integrity.
Innovation Solution
A communication network architecture that includes mobile access points (OBUs) and fixed access points, utilizing multi-hop communication and a cloud-based service-oriented architecture to ensure data integrity and adaptability, with features like self-healing, self-configuration, and adaptive power management, enabling connectivity and data processing for a wide range of applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If current communication networks are used to support networks with moving and static nodes, then network connectivity is provided, but data integrity cannot be guaranteed
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments data verification into multiple independent components: hash value calculation at data generation, hash verification at receiving ends, and blockchain-based immutable recording of verification results. This segmentation allows each component to focus on specific verification tasks, ensuring data integrity without requiring complete system redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces blockchain technology as an intermediary mechanism to verify and record data integrity across the network. The blockchain serves as a trusted third party that permanently stores verification results, eliminating the need for complex centralized verification systems while ensuring data authenticity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If complex array of moving and static nodes is implemented, then network versatility is improved, but network management difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service mechanisms where nodes automatically generate and verify their own data using cryptographic hashes, and the blockchain automatically records verification results without human intervention. This automation reduces management complexity while maintaining high network adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs dynamic parameter changes including adaptive hash algorithms, variable blockchain block sizes, and flexible node identification mechanisms that can adapt to different network conditions. These parameter changes enable the network to handle diverse node types (moving and static) without increasing management complexity.
3Reliability
If data verification mechanisms are added to ensure integrity, then data security is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary hash value calculation and preparation at the data generation stage, so that verification can be performed quickly at the receiving end. The hash values are pre-computed and stored with the data, eliminating the need for time-consuming verification processes during data transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical verification processes with cryptographic hash functions and blockchain-based verification, which are computationally efficient and can verify data integrity rapidly. This substitution reduces verification time while maintaining high security standards.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for guaranteeing the integrity of created within or transferred using a network of moving things. Different types of data from different data sources may be monitored, and various approaches to validating such data may be employed using expected data characteristics, alternate data sources, and historical information to help maximize the likelihood that data destined for a particular destination is available when needed, and is found to be valid and reliable.