https://blog.advaoptical.com/en/does-blockchain-have-a-role-in-telecommunications
Received from the above database :
A blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger (information recorded in a shared database) that enables open and trusted exchanges over the internet without using central servers or an independent trusted authority. Using consensus, a shared record is distributed to all participants in a network to validate transactions and remove the need for a third-party intermediary. In short, blockchains facilitate transparent, verifiable, and secure digital asset transactions with both proof of rights and ownership.
Blockchain has its origins in the secure exchange of digital currency – such as Bitcoin – but its applicability is extending far beyond digital payments and into a number of different industries including financial, healthcare, government and even telecommunications. In fact the number of use cases for blockchain is actually quite astounding:
Yes, Qlink is a decentralized mobile network token based on blockchain technology.
Hi Hamed Daei Kasmaei,
You check our project "Secure Communication Platform based on Ethereum Blockchain".
So far, we have two published research articles: 1) Securing Voice over IP calls using the Blockchain as a decentralized public key infrastructure. 2) Securing VoLTE and integration of Blockchain with operator's IMS subsystem.
Other articles are in press: One deals with securing IoT communications and the other with providing a solution for NAT using distributed TURN servers and Ethereum Blockchain.
Regards,
Elie.
Yes definitely. Quite a lot of work is currently being done utilizing blockchain for implementing secure communication.
All depends on what is meant under "Telecommunications" and considered tasks. For some comparatively rare tasks of communication blockchain could be useful.
You definitely is able to use one for almost all of those tasks, but is it that you really want to do? Consider cell phones, those need constant consensus search. Not mentioning power needed for doing so... A lot of other tasks may be listed (computer networking, processor-processor, processor-device communication). Blockchain is not almighty! And definitely (@Salah Albermany) its development for tasks of data ordering, storing and processing is far behind current state of databases development (bearing in mind, that blockchain is much more expensive and slower).
In my opinion for the most of "common" or "plain" tasks of telecommunication usage of blockchain is something like driving nails with Fabergé egg instead of hammer.
In my opinion the article is yet another review that BC may be used in many areas but unfortunatelly without real proposition how to do it.
I will ask only one question which I receive regularly from my colleagues - "Why do you think that a system with BC is better than the some system without BC but with using the usual cyber security instruments? How can you proof it"?
actually, I think that the blockchain implements a new paradigm of communication security, a decentralized communication.
In the last 30 years, at least, the centralized paradigm client-server was the protagonist where the approaches of attacks and security solutions was spinning around its proprieties.
Blockchain brought new possibilities of architectures, with pros and cons but possibily with new horizons to communications security and to the communication itself in the future
You might want to check OpenCryptoTrust that aims at applying blockchain to telco. They use 'blockchain as a transport' (BaaT) and for this develop their native chain aiming at 100k tps, and implement 'BD-WAN' (blockchain defined wide area network) for real-time bandwidth allocation.
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