Title
Resource Optimization for Delay-Tolerant Data in Blockchain-Enabled IoT With Edge Computing: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Abstract
Recently, the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) provides plenty of opportunities and challenges in various fields. As an essential part of IoT, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications open a novel way that the machine-type communication devices (MTCDs) are connected and communicated without any human intervention. Meanwhile, delay-tolerant data play an important role in M2M communications-based IoT, and it puts more emphasis on powerful data caching, computing, and processing, as well as the security and stability of data transmission. To meet these requirements in M2M communications networks, in this article, we introduce some promising technologies, such as edge computing and blockchain, and propose a joint optimization framework about caching, computation, and security for delay-tolerant data in M2M communications networks based on dueling deep <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -network (DQN). According to the dynamic decision process by DQN, the optimal selection and decision of caching servers, computing servers, and blockchain systems can be made to achieve maximum system rewards, which includes higher efficiency of data processing, lower network costs, and better security of data interaction. Extensive simulation results with different system parameters show that our proposed framework can effectively improve the system performance for blockchain-enabled M2M communications compared to the existing schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/JIOT.2020.3007869
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Machine-to-machine communications,Blockchain,Internet of Things,Edge computing,Servers,Optimization,Security
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
2327-4662
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
35
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meng Li1366.94
Fei Yu25116335.58
Pengbo Si318625.23
Wenjun Wu4100.76
Yanhua Zhang514524.84