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BlockQoS: Fair Monetization of On-demand Quality-of-Service using Blockchains

Authors:

Muhammad Muneem Shabir,

Syed Muhammad Danish,

Kaiwen ZhangAuthors Info & Claims

Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, Volume 2, Issue 2

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/3580284

Published: 08 June 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Video conferencing has become an essential tool for working from home. However, poor audio/video quality resulting from unstable Internet connections undermines the productivity of important tasks. Additionally, the static monetization model for ISP networks, which employs third parties, cannot support on-demand and dynamic Quality-of-Service sessions that are necessary to maximize the Quality-of-Experience (QoE) of video conferencing.

To address this, we introduce BlockQoS: Fair Monetization of On-Demand Quality-of-Service using Blockchains. BlockQoS allows clients to request and manage their Quality-of-Service requirements through a blockchain-based platform operating using a smart contract. It implements a decentralized monetization model to eliminate third parties, enforce transparency in service-level agreements (SLAs), and reduce blockchain operating costs by utilizing off-chain billing validated using zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARK). Additionally, we propose a Quality-of-Service delivery verification mechanism that enforces service level agreements on the hardware external to the blockchain, and a dynamic evaluation method based on the concept of Nash equilibrium in game theory that prevents malicious behavior by ISPs and users. We implemented BlockQoS over Ethereum with a Ryu controller, zk-SNARK, and SGX. Our experiments show that BlockQoS offers transaction cost reduction of up to 88% (gas cost) and latency reduction of up to 87% compared to the state-of-the-art on-chain solutions.

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Index Terms

BlockQoS: Fair Monetization of On-demand Quality-of-Service using Blockchains
1. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network manageability
  2. Network protocols
    1. Application layer protocols
      1. Peer-to-peer protocols
2. Security and privacy
  1. Security services
    1. Privacy-preserving protocols
  2. Systems security
    1. Operating systems security
      1. Trusted computing

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Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice Volume 2, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/3603695

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Published: 08 June 2023

Online AM: 17 January 2023

Accepted: 19 December 2022

Revised: 11 October 2022

Received: 06 May 2022

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Kapetanidou ISarros CLedakis GTsaoussidis V(2025)Feed4Cloud: Towards trustworthy QoE-aware cloud service monitoring using blockchainFuture Generation Computer Systems10.1016/j.future.2024.107532163(107532)Online publication date: Feb-2025
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.107532
Karakus M(2024)GATE-BC: Genetic Algorithm-Powered QoS-Aware Cross-Network Traffic Engineering in Blockchain- Enabled SDNIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2024.337421312(36523-36545)Online publication date: 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3374213
Guler E(2024)CITE-PSO: Cross-ISP Traffic Engineering Enhanced by Particle Swarm Optimization in Blockchain Enabled SDONsIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2024.336760012(27611-27632)Online publication date: 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3367600

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