Performance Analysis and Application of Mobile Blockchain

TL;DR

This paper introduces MobiChain, a mobile blockchain application that enables secure transactions in m-commerce by allowing mining processes to run efficiently on mobile devices, demonstrating blockchain's potential as a security solution.

Contribution

It presents a novel mobile blockchain system with an Android core module that facilitates efficient mining on mobile devices, addressing a key challenge in m-commerce security.

Findings

Mobile mining processes are feasible on Android devices.

Blockchain enhances security in m-commerce.

Performance evaluation shows promising results.

Abstract

Mobile security has become more and more important due to the boom of mobile commerce (m-commerce). However, the development of m-commerce is facing many challenges regarding data security problems. Recently, blockchain has been introduced as an effective security solution deployed successfully in many applications in practice, such as, Bitcoin, cloud computing, and Internet-of-Things. However, the blockchain technology has not been adopted and implemented widely in m-commerce because its mining processes usually require to be performed on standard computing units, e.g., computers. Therefore, in this paper, we introduce a new m-commerce application using blockchain technology, namely, MobiChain, to secure transactions in the m-commerce. Especially, in the MobiChain application, the mining processes can be executed efficiently on mobile devices using our proposed Android core module. Through real experiments, we evaluate the performance of the proposed model and show that blockchain will be an efficient security solution for future m-commerce.