A QoS-guaranteed System with Software Defined Networking and Micropayment

Abstract

This paper tackles the problem of using and paying a network service with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) at a fine granularity in the future wireless network. We propose the IOTA-based QoS guaranteed Flow system (IQF), where a user and service provider can exchange the IOTA cryptocurrency for the guaranteed network resources, such as latency and bandwidth. First, IQF uses the IOTA Tangle, a lightweight, efficient distributed ledger technology, for its payment and transaction record. Second, IQF adopts Software Defined Networking to realize the guaranteed delay and bandwidth provision. We have implemented the IQF systems using the mininet-wifi emulator, an SDN controller (i.e., POX), and IOTA clients. Moreover, we have evaluated the service provisioning algorithms with a micropayment of IQF with the test Tangle (i.e., comnet). The evaluation results show that IQF has successfully achieved the delay and bandwidth provision with all the transactions stored in comnet.