Patch Transporter: Incentivized, Decentralized Software Patch System for WSN and IoT Environments
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Published on: February 27, 2017
1Department of Mathematical Finance, Gachon University, Seongnam-si 13120, Korea. jonghyup@gachon.ac.kr.
Abstract:
[-12]In the complicated settings of WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) and IoT (Internet of Things) environments, keeping a number of heterogeneous devices updated is a challenging job, especially with respect to effectively discovering target devices and rapidly delivering the software updates. In this paper, we convert the traditional software update process to a distributed service. We set an incentive system for faithfully transporting the patches to the recipient devices. The incentive system motivates independent, self-interested transporters for helping the devices to be updated. To ensure the system correctly operates, we employ the blockchain system that enforces the commitment in a decentralized manner. We also present a detailed specification for the proposed protocol and validate it by model checking and simulations for correctness.
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