DECENTRALIZED DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL USING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED SMART CONTRACTS

摘要

Embodiments for providing a decentralized DHCP in a trustful or trustless network having a plurality of nodes by registering a first node with a smart contract maintained by the network by mapping its public key and MAC address; adding the first node to the network by assigning an IP address to the MAC address; sending an acknowledgement from the first node to the smart contract; and updating a distributed ledger containing an updated entry for the first node from the smart contract on every other node of the plurality of nodes on the network. In a trustless network a method further includes exchanging a decrypting nonce messages between the first node and all other nodes in the network until a consensus of first network validation by all nodes is reached.