Fog-Assisted Blockchain Radio Access Network for Web3

Abstract

Recently, Web3 has received extensive attention as the next generation Internet and is in rapid development, which can highly integrate the physical world with the digital world. The blockchain that can build trust and fog computing with distributed computing mode can fit well with the decentralization idea of Web3. The combination of the two can provide an effective solution for the implementation of Web3. This article proposes a new network architecture, fog-assisted blockchain radio access network (FogBC-RAN), which supports stable and mutual trust connections on a global scale, and can smoothly coordinate multi-dimensional resources to support new services such as holographic communication, digital twin, and sensory interconnection. With the interconnection of ten thousand chains in the future Web3, the cross-chain information transfer process based on Polkadot for charging sharing is presented, which can realize flexible cross-chain transactions. Meanwhile, for the mainstream computing-intensive applications of Web3, considering the latency, energy consumption and transaction cost, a computing offloading strategy based on matching game is proposed to minimize the system cost. Finally, the simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the offloading mechanism proposed in FogBC-RAN.