Scalable Blockchain for Offline Payments over Bidirectional Channels

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This project provides the first opportunity for Prof. Victor Leung's research group at UBC to collaborate withRightMesh, a startup focusing on offering a novel wireless data service in heterogeneous mobile ad hocnetworks. At RightMesh, scientists and engineers have created a new technology platform and protocols forconnecting users in an ad hoc wireless mesh network, and in so doing, creating new connectivity options tobillions of unconnected users around the world. With RightMesh, the devices people already carry aroundevery day form the infrastructure. The key principle is that the RightMesh network is self-forming, self-healing,and self-regulating. It runs on devices most of the world already uses and can easily afford. No additionalhardware or infrastructure is required. A decentralized mobile mesh networking platform, powered byblockchain technology and tokenization, can put the power of connectivity back into the hands of the people.The collaborative research leverages the experience of the UBC team on ad hoc networks, device-to-devicecommunications, network security and blockchain technology in the development of a payment channel systemto enable payment transactions in support of people sharing information or network resources over ad hocnetworks. The project is divided into two tasks: (1) bidirectional payment channel design for multiple parties,and (2) architecture design for offline payment with payment channel. This project enables an initialcollaborative research engagement between RightMesh and UBC with the intention of developing a long-termpartnership to advance Canadian technologies for blockchain and the micropayment of cryptocurrency, whichwill potentially attract substantial investments and provide many employment opportunities for highly skilledworkers over the next decade.