Platt, StevenSanabria Russo, LuisOliver Riera, Miquel2021-01-152021-01-152020Platt S, Sanabria-Russo L, Oliver M. CoNTe: a core network temporal blockchain for 5G. Sensors. 2020 Sep 15;20(18):5281. DOI: 10.3390/s201852811424-8220http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46186Virtual Network Functions allow the effective separation between hardware and network functionality, a strong paradigm shift from previously tightly integrated monolithic, vendor, and technology dependent deployments. In this virtualized paradigm, all aspects of network operations can be made to deploy on demand, dynamically scale, as well as be shared and interworked in ways that mirror behaviors of general cloud computing. To date, although seeing rising demand, distributed ledger technology remains largely incompatible in such elastic deployments, by its nature as functioning as an immutable record store. This work focuses on the structural incompatibility of current blockchain designs and proposes a novel, temporal blockchain design built atop federated byzantine agreement, which has the ability to dynamically scale and be packaged as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) for the 5G Core.application/pdfeng© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185281Blockchain5G-specific blockchainSoftware-defined networksNetwork functions virtualizationDistributed algorithmsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess