Blockchain and IoT-Based Cognitive Edge Framework for Sharing Economy Services in a Smart City

Md. Abdur Rahman; Md. Mamunur Rashid; M. Shamim Hossain; Elham Hassanain; Mohammed F. Alhamid; Mohsen Guizani

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2896065

IEEE Access (Jan 2019)

Blockchain and IoT-Based Cognitive Edge Framework for Sharing Economy Services in a Smart City

Md. Abdur Rahman,
Md. Mamunur Rashid,
M. Shamim Hossain,
Elham Hassanain,
Mohammed F. Alhamid,
Mohsen Guizani

Affiliations

Md. Abdur Rahman: Department of Cyber Security and Forensic Computing, University of Prince Mugrin, Medina, Saudi Arabia
Md. Mamunur Rashid: Consumer and Organizational Digital Analytics Research Centre, King’s Business School, King’s College London, London, U.K.
M. Shamim Hossain: ORCiD; Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Elham Hassanain: Department of Cyber Security and Forensic Computing, University of Prince Mugrin, Medina, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed F. Alhamid: Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mohsen Guizani: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2896065
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7
pp. 18611 – 18621

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In this paper, we propose a Blockchain-based infrastructure to support security- and privacy-oriented spatio-temporal smart contract services for the sustainable Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled sharing economy in mega smart cities. The infrastructure leverages cognitive fog nodes at the edge to host and process off loaded geo-tagged multimedia payload and transactions from a mobile edge and IoT nodes, uses AI for processing and extracting significant event information, produces semantic digital analytics, and saves results in Blockchain and decentralized cloud repositories to facilitate sharing economy services. The framework offers a sustainable incentive mechanism, which can potentially support secure smart city services, such as sharing economy, smart contracts, and cyber-physical interaction with Blockchain and IoT. Our unique contribution is justified by detailed system design and implementation of the framework.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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