Pricing and Budget Allocation for IoT Blockchain with Edge Computing

Attracted by the inherent security and privacy protection of blockchain, incorporating blockchain into Internet Things (IoT) has been widely studied in these years. However, mining process requires high computational power, which prevents IoT devices from directly participating construction. For this reason, edge computing service is introduced to help build where could purchase resources servers. In paper, we consider case that also have other tasks need servers, such as data analysis storage. scenario, will allocate their limited budgets different profits can be maximized. Moreover, servers set "best" prices they get biggest benefits. We model interaction between a multi-leader multi-follower Stackelberg game, whose objective reach Equilibrium (SE). prove existence uniqueness SE point, design efficient algorithms point. end, verify our performing extensive simulations.