Patch Transporter: Incentivized, Decentralized Software Patch System for WSN and IoT Environments.

Sensors (Basel)

Department of Mathematical Finance, Gachon University, Seongnam-si 13120, Korea.

Published: February 2018

AI Article Synopsis

  • Keeping software up-to-date in diverse Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Internet of Things (IoT) environments is challenging due to the need for effective device discovery and swift updates.
  • The paper proposes a distributed service approach for software updates, implementing an incentive system to encourage self-interested transporters to deliver patches to devices.
  • To ensure reliability, the system utilizes blockchain technology for decentralized enforcement, and the authors validate their protocol through detailed specifications, model checking, and simulations.

Article 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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