ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we propose the use of blockchain technologies and specifically the concept of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) in order to decentralize the Tactile Internet and enhance the performance and execution times of mobile applications. To achieve this objective, different methodologies were applied harnessing the partially or fully decentralized end-user equipment and edge computing server solutions, as well as crowdsourcing of human expertise to perform tasks that teleoperated robots struggle to complete reliably. Also, the concept of blockchain nudge contract was introduced to improve the task completion capabilities of unskilled decentralized members of the DAO. The simulation results provided illustrate that higher decentralization can lead to up to 90 percent improvement in task completion performance for an optimal offloading probability. Also, we demonstrated that crowdsourcing of human intelligence can severely improve task completion performance, especially in cases where robots are failing to complete physical tasks. Thus, to promote skilled user intervention and successfully complete tasks, the concept of nudging was adopted for skills transfer.
