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Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Consensus via Reinforcement Learning for Permissioned Blockchain-Empowered V2X Network | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore

Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Consensus via Reinforcement Learning for Permissioned Blockchain-Empowered V2X Network


Abstract:

Blockchain has been forming the central piece of various types of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) network for trusted data exchange. Recently, permissioned blockchains garner...Show More

Abstract:

Blockchain has been forming the central piece of various types of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) network for trusted data exchange. Recently, permissioned blockchains garner particular attention thanks to their improved scalability and diverse needs from different organizations. One representative example of permissioned blockchain is Hyperledger Fabric (“Fabric”). Due to its unique execute-order procedure, there is a critical need for a client to select an optimal number of peers. The interesting problem that this paper targets to address is the tradeoff in the number of peers: a too large number will degrade scalability while a too small number will make the network vulnerable to faulty nodes. This optimization issue gets especially challenging in V2X networks due to mobility of nodes: a transaction must be executed, and the associated block must be committed before the vehicle leaves a network. To this end, this paper proposes a mechanism for selecting an optimal set of peers based on reinforcement learning (RL) to keep a Fabric-empowered V2X network impervious to dynamicity due to mobility. We model the RL as a contextual multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. The results demonstrate the outperformance of the proposed scheme.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles ( Volume: 8, Issue: 1, January 2023)
Page(s): 172 - 183
Date of Publication: 19 April 2022

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