Blockchain-enabled handover skipping for high mobility train passengers

Asad, S. M., Valente Klaine, P. , Naveed Bin Rais, R., Hussain, S. , Abbasi, Q. H. and Imran, M. A. (2022) Blockchain-enabled handover skipping for high mobility train passengers. Electronics Letters, 58(25), pp. 978-981. (doi: 10.1049/ell2.12658)

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This work was supported by the EPSRC Research council, University of Glasgow, UK. Also, it is partially funded by Deanship of Graduate Studies and Research (DGSR), Ajman University, UAE, under the grant number 2021-IRG-ENIT-2.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Imran, Professor Muhammad and Valente Klaine, Mr Paulo and Asad, Syed and Hussain, Dr Sajjad and Abbasi, Professor Qammer
• Authors: Asad, S. M., Valente Klaine, P., Naveed Bin Rais, R., Hussain, S., Abbasi, Q. H., and Imran, M. A.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering; College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Autonomous Systems and Connectivity; College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering
• Journal Name: Electronics Letters
• Publisher: The Institution of Engineering & Technology
• ISSN: 0013-5194
• ISSN (Online): 1350-911X
• Published Online: 27 October 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Electronics Letters 58(25): 978-981
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License