Blockchain management using a device in a wireless telecommunication system
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorLuke Anthony Hinds
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Abstract
Devices in a wireless telecommunication system can implement a blockchain that is distributed among the devices. For example, a base transceiver station of the wireless telecommunication system can receive, from a mobile device, a wireless radio communication that includes information associated with a blockchain transaction. The base transceiver station can convert the information associated with the blockchain transaction into an internet protocol (IP)-based format. The base transceiver station can update the blockchain by propagating the formatted information to other base transceiver stations of the wireless telecommunication system through an IP-based network that is internal to the wireless telecommunication system.
Claims19
A cellular network comprising:
- base transceiver stations that are positionable at physical edges of the cellular network for communicating with mobile devices,
- wherein the base transceiver stations are communicatively coupled to one another over an internal Internet-protocol (IP) network that is accessible to the base transceiver stations through separate base-station controllers and that is formed from components internal to the cellular network, and
- wherein the base transceiver stations each comprise executable instructions for collectively implementing a blockchain that is executed at the physical edges of the cellular network and distributed among the base transceiver stations over the internal IP network to reduce an amount of latency associated with corresponding blockchain transactions,
- each base transceiver station of the base transceiver stations being configured to implement the blockchain by:
- receiving, from a respective mobile device, a respective wireless radio communication that includes information associated with a respective transaction to be included in the blockchain;
- converting the information associated with the respective transaction into an IP-based format to generate formatted information that is communicable over the internal IP network of the cellular network;
- and
- updating the blockchain by propagating the formatted information to another base transceiver station among the base transceiver stations in the cellular network through the internal IP network of the cellular network.
A base transceiver station of a cellular network, the base transceiver station being positionable at a physical edge of the cellular network for communicating with a mobile device, the base transceiver station comprising:
- a processing device;
- and
- a memory device on which instructions are stored for implementing a blockchain at the physical edges of the cellular network and in concert with a plurality of other base transceiver stations of the cellular network to reduce an amount of latency associated with corresponding blockchain transactions, the instructions being configured for causing the processing device to:
- receive information associated with a wireless radio communication from the mobile device;
- convert the information into an internet protocol (IP)-based format to generate formatted information;
- and
- update the blockchain by propagating the formatted information to the plurality of other base transceiver stations that also include executable instructions for implementing the blockchain,
- wherein the base transceiver station is configured to propagate the formatted information to the plurality of other base transceiver stations over an IP-based network that is accessible to the base transceiver station through a separate base-station controller and that is formed from components internal to the cellular network.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a base transceiver station that is positioned at a physical edge of a cellular network, a wireless radio communication from a mobile device;
- converting, by the base transceiver station, information included in the wireless radio communication into an internet protocol (IP)-based format to generate formatted information;
- and
- updating, by the base transceiver station, a blockchain executing at physical edges of the cellular network and formed by a plurality of base transceiver stations of the cellular network,
- wherein the blockchain is executing at the physical edges of the cellular network to reduce an amount of latency associated with corresponding blockchain transactions,
- wherein the base transceiver station updates the blockchain by propagating the formatted information to other base transceiver stations of the plurality of base transceiver stations that are implementing the blockchain, and
- wherein the base transceiver station propagates the formatted information to the other base transceiver stations over an IP-based network that is formed from components internal to the cellular network by accessing the IP-based network through a separate base-station controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.