An Incentive Mechanism for Energy Internet of Things Based on Blockchain and Stackelberg Game

In the Internet of Everything era, the Energy Internet of Things (IoT), as a typical application of IoT technology, has been extensively studied. Meanwhile, blockchain technology and energy IoT can be coordinated and complementary. The energy IoT is diversified and has a high transaction demand. it is an issue worthy of research to discuss the impact of the energy IoT environment on the performance of blockchain consensus algorithms and guarantee blockchain stability in energy IoT environment. In the research, an incentive mechanism based on Stackelberg game is proposed for the network scenario involving multiple roadside units and user nodes. The proposed strategy is analyzed through the Matlab simulation platform. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively protect the interests of blockchain users and miners. It also can improve the security and stability of the blockchain-based energy IoT system. Moreover, the numerical results not only verify the model feasibility. It also shows that when there are many blockchain miners, the model performance is fine. However, when the number of miners reaches a certain value, there will be unobvious growth. Furthermore, it is also confirmed that the wireless energy IoT environment will also create a certain impact on the game model.