Blockchain-Enabled Electrical Fault Inspection and Secure Transmission in 5G Smart Grids

Abstract

The maturity of the 5th-Generation (5G) communication technology promotes a new round of industrial revolution and supports the high-quality development of economic society. However, owing to the scarce communication resources, costly labor and complex geographic environment, inspecting and maintaining electrical faults accurately and timely in a remote grid is rather challenging. To solve this problem, we comprehensively consider secure and efficient signal transmissions to construct an automatic grid fault inspection system and formulate a multi-objective optimization problem. Due to its complexity, we decompose it into two sub-problems, propose ablockchain-enabledsecuretransmission scheme (BEST) and animprovedmarketmatching (IMM) algorithm, correspondingly. Considering the latency magnitude difference between blockchain verification and intra-domain transmission, the BEST scheme integratesdeepreinforcement learning-basedimprovedproximal policy optimization training algorithm (DRIP) andA*-basedbi-objective multi-destinationoptimization algorithm (ABOO) to achieve the intra-domain secure transmission. Based on the real city topology and the YouTube video service data statistics, our algorithms can optimize the network performance while guaranteeing the security of signal transmissions.