Open AccessBlockchain‐enabled handover skipping for high mobility train passengers
Author(s) -
Asad Syed Muhammad,
Klaine Paulo Valente,
Rais Rao Naveed Bin,
Hussain Sajjad,
Abbasi Qammer H.,
Imran Muhammad Ali
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/ell2.12658
Subject(s) - handover , pseudonym , computer network , quality of service , computer science , blockchain , throughput , traffic congestion , real time computing , telecommunications , transport engineering , computer security , engineering , wireless , political science , law
Due to the cell size decrements and limited sojourn time on a high speed train mobility, unnecessary handovers (HOs) occur, which can lead to higher network communication costs, and affect passengers quality of service (QoS). This paper proposes a novel blockchain‐enabled privacy preserving HO skipping framework by using train mobility dataset from the city of London. Using a complex dataset parameters, passenger traffic flows are modelled by averaging various train lines and station's footfall numbers utilising blockchain to maintain privacy. The framework stores pseudonym addresses in order to track the path of users. The proposed framework allows for a better trade‐off in terms of 2% (approx.) gain in average throughput, over 100% gain in the last‐hop signal quality, and a 50% reduction in HO costs, while also addressing the needs for resources to operate the blockchain.