Blockchain-Enabled HMM Model for Sports Performance Prediction

Abstract

The historical training or exam data of an athlete produced in the past sport exercise or test activities have provided a promising way to objectively and accurately evaluate the real-time sport performance of the athlete. However, the continuous generation of sport training or exam data has placed a heavy transmission and processing burden on the traditional centralized data processing paradigm (e.g., cloud platform). Considering this drawback, a decentralized blockchain-based athlete sport data transmission and utilization solution is proposed in this research work. Moreover, the available athlete sport data produced in past sport exercise or test activities is often sparse and time-related, which call for a robust and time-aware data fusion and processing solution. In this situation, HMM model is employed in this article to cope with the data sparsity and dynamics and further make accurate sports performance prediction for athletes accordingly. Finally, we design a set of experiments on a real-world dataset to validate the feasibility of our proposal in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.