Design and Optimization of Blockchain-Based Distributed Data-Sharing System for Urban Rail Transit

With the wide application of data-driven intelligence technology, the management efficiency and quality of urban rail transit improve considerably. However, due to data privacy and security protection, a large amount of data is still scattered among operators or rail transit departments in the form of data islands. The data barriers between urban rail departments severely hinder the intelligent development of urban rail transit systems. In this study, we design a distributed data-sharing system based on blockchain for urban rail transit system. Data production node in urban rail department, such as servers in data centers, wayside equipment, and onboard equipment, can share their data in a distributed way. Blockchain provides audit and check functions to guarantee data-sharing security. We explore the data-sharing incentive mechanism which has an impact on sharing willingness of data production nodes. To maximize the individual utility of nodes, we formulate an evolutionary game model for data nodes with bounded rationality to adapt their sharing strategies. The uniqueness and stability of the equilibrium of the game are also analyzed theoretically. Extensive experiments are conducted and illustrated that data production nodes can share their data efficiently and safely in our proposed data-sharing system. Our proposed evolutionary game model can determine the most effective data-sharing incentive mechanism. © 2023 Mo Chen et al.