Blockchain Based Privacy Preserving Framework for Emerging 6G Wireless Communications

Abstract

With the global rollout of fifth-generation communication networks, the development on sixth-generation (6G) communication network has begun. The 6G technology is an emerging technology that will meet the ever-increasing demands of evolving industrial services and applications. This technology consists of varied number of heterogeneous resources and communication protocols to guarantee the seamless access to the services. Because of its heterogeneous nature and authorization delegation, security is a major concern in 6G communication environment. The emerging blockchain technology can able to solve the aforementioned privacy and security challenges. The blockchain technique also offers enhanced services like openness, decentralization, immutability, trust free, and so on. Motivated by the aforementioned facts, this article proposes a novel idea of integration of privacy preserving blockchain framework with 6G communication network. We also propose an integrated system for blockchain radio access network as a reliable and stable model for 6G networking based on blockchain technology with improved efficiency and protection. Furthermore, the critical components of blockchain such as smart contract, consensus protocol, mathematical model, secure data sharing, and auditing are clearly defined and experimental results are analyzed.