MECaaS: Mobile Edge Computing as a Services Based on Blockchain

As a new generation of computing paradigm for Internet of things (IoT), edge computing has been proved to be promising in solving the problems of insufficient centralized computing power, bandwidth congestion and transmission delay by distributing traditional cloud resources down to edges. While so, massive of computing resources have not been utilized due to the physical heterogeneity and allocation issues. Addressing on the two major challenges, in this paper, we propose a blockchain-based edge computing solution (MECaaS), which integrates smart contract, component interface, distributed allocation algorithm and other elements as a service. Comparing with the existing blockchain-edge computing solutions, we focus more on technical implementation than just the theoretical framework, by distributing this service to inspire devices’ self-potential in interaction, perception and decision, in further forms a distributed intelligent system. The service is deployed in a heterogeneous IoT scenario, and proved to be efficient for edge computing. Also, experimental results show that distributed resource allocation strategies perform better than centralized ways to some extent.