OPPay: Design and Implementation of A Payment System for Opportunistic Data Services
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Author(s)
Shi, Fengrui
Qin, Zhijin
McCann, Julie A
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The large number of personal wireless devices in the urban areas could be used to provide various opportunistic data services, such as WiFi sharing, content-based file sharing and opportunistic networking. In order to facilitate these services, it is essential to incentivise the device owners to become service providers. However, previous research failed to deliver any practical payment systems for opportunistic data services. Inspired by smart contracts functionalities of bitcoin, this paper proposes a payment system named OPPay for opportunistic data services, which implements a micropayment communication protocol for mobile devices to perform data transactions and make payments using bitcoin. The system is designed to make incremental payments and thus resilient to interrupted communications caused by human mobility in the mobile network. By implementing and evaluating the system for three different applications, we show that the system is able to work in heterogeneous hardware and software environments and can achieve fast transactions confirmation with small fee overhead and low faulty payment value.
Editor(s)
Lee, K
Liu, L
Date Issued
2017-07-17
Date Acceptance
2017-06-05
Citation
2017 IEEE 37TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS (ICDCS 2017), 2017, pp.1618-1628
ISSN
1063-6927
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
1618
End Page
1628
Journal / Book Title
2017 IEEE 37TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS (ICDCS 2017)
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Source
37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Computer Science
opportunistic data service
cryptocurrency
micropayment
smart contract
WIRELESS COMMUNITY NETWORKS
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-06-05
Finish Date
2017-06-08
Coverage Spatial
Atlanta, GA
Date Publish Online
2017-07-17