Distributed Maritime Transport Communication System With Reliability and Safety Based on Blockchain and Edge Computing

In recent years, with the continuous development of internet of things (IoT) technology, many fields have benefited a lot, including the maritime transportation system (MTS). But there are also corresponding risks, such as security and privacy, interference attacks, ransomware attacks, and so on. How to ensure the reliability and efficiency of information transmission is very important for maritime transportation system. In order to solve this problem, we propose an IoT-enabled maritime transport communication system, which is a distributed system composed of base stations and offshore buoys, and uses the unique structure of the blockchain to solve the problems of security and reliability in the network. There are two main advantages: First, the decentralized network is reliable and can handle node failures. Second, the use of blockchain technology can integrate computing resources into the entire network to support different tasks, while taking into account information security and transaction security. On this basis, with the help of edge computing technology, we have also improved the energy efficiency and performance of IoT devices in the system.