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The Intersection of Blockchain and 6G Technologies

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6G Mobile Wireless Networks

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The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks are on the way to be deployed around the world. The 5G technologies target to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogeneous devices and machines with drastic improvements in terms of high quality of service, increased network capacity and enhanced system throughput. However, 5G systems still remain a number of security challenges that have been mentioned by researchers and organizations, including decentralization, transparency, risks of data interoperability, and network privacy vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the conventional techniques may not be sufficient to deal with the security requirements of 5G. As 5G is generally deployed in heterogeneous networks with massive ubiquitous devices, it is quite necessary to provide secure and decentralized solutions. Motivated from these facts, in this paper we provide a state-of-the-art survey on the integration of blockchain with 5G networks and beyond. In this detailed survey, our primary focus is on the extensive discussions on the potential of blockchain for enabling key 5G technologies, including cloud computing, edge computing, Network Function Virtualization, Network Slicing, and D2D communications. We then explore and analyse the opportunities that blockchain potentially empowers important 5G services, ranging from spectrum management, data sharing, network virtualization, resource management to interference management, federated learning, privacy and security provision. The recent advances in the applications of blockchain in 5G Internet of Things are also surveyed in a wide range of popular use-case domains, such as smart healthcare, smart city, smart transportation, smart grid and UAVs. The main findings derived from the comprehensive survey on the cooperated blockchain-5G networks and services are then summarized, and possible research challenges with open issues are also identified. Lastly, we complete this survey by shedding new light on future directions of research on this newly emerging area.

These authors “Tri Nguyen and Lauri Lovén” contributed equally.

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Notes

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    https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html.

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    https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists.

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    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10299.

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    https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-20.

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Nguyen, T., Lovén, L., Partala, J., Pirttikangas, S. (2021). The Intersection of Blockchain and 6G Technologies. In: Wu, Y., et al. 6G Mobile Wireless Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72777-2_18

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