An Evolutionary Game Assisted Spectrum Sharing Blockchain Framework for Internet of Vehicles

Abstract

With the significant advance of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), a massive number of vehicular users will connect with the Internet via 5G and the beyond 5G (B5G) networks, which will further worse the spectrum scarcity problem in 5G/B5G networks. Therefore, how to enable dynamical and efficient spectrum resource sharing for IoV users is imperative. To this end, we investigate an evolutionary game enabled spectrum sharing blockchain framework for IoV. Specifically, We use alliance nodes and blockchain framework to assist in the completion of multi-WSP spectrum resource allocation, sharing, and the allocation results storage. We first propose an evolutionary game scheme to allocate the spectrum resource among different WSPs. To reflect the vehicle users’ communication demand more appropriately, the vehicle mobility is taken into consideration when defining the payoff of the vehicle users. After completing the spectrum allocation, we illustrate the process of allocation results recording and block generation in our established blockchain verification system, where the transactions ledger of spectrum allocation will be stored in each alliance node in a distributed way. Numerical results exhibit the fast convergence speed of the spectrum allocation approach. Moreover, simulations results from our established hyperledger platform validate the effectiveness and implementability of the investigated spectrum sharing blockchain framework.