TY  - EJOU
AU  - Zhang, Peiying 
AU  - Yu, Yihong 
AU  - Liu, Jing 
AU  - Lv, Chong 
AU  - Tan, Lizhuang 
AU  - Zhang, Yulin 

TI  - Enhanced Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Service Function Chain Deployment: Advancing Big Data Intelligence in Control Systems
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2025
VL  - 83
IS  - 3
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies continue to evolve at an unprecedented pace, intelligent big data control and information systems have become critical enablers for organizational digital transformation, facilitating data-driven decision making, fostering innovation ecosystems, and maintaining operational stability. In this study, we propose an advanced deployment algorithm for Service Function Chaining (SFC) that leverages an enhanced Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) mechanism. The main goal is to tackle the issues of security and resource efficiency in SFC implementation across diverse network settings. By integrating blockchain technology and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), our algorithm not only optimizes resource utilization and quality of service but also ensures robust security during SFC deployment. Specifically, the enhanced PBFT consensus mechanism (VRPBFT) significantly reduces consensus latency and improves Byzantine node detection through the introduction of a Verifiable Random Function (VRF) and a node reputation grading model. Experimental results demonstrate that compared to traditional PBFT, the proposed VRPBFT algorithm reduces consensus latency by approximately 30% and decreases the proportion of Byzantine nodes by 40% after 100 rounds of consensus. Furthermore, the DRL-based SFC deployment algorithm (SDRL) exhibits rapid convergence during training, with improvements in long-term average revenue, request acceptance rate, and revenue/cost ratio of 17%, 14.49%, and 20.35%, respectively, over existing algorithms. Additionally, the CPU resource utilization of the SDRL algorithm reaches up to 42%, which is 27.96% higher than other algorithms. These findings indicate that the proposed algorithm substantially enhances resource utilization efficiency, service quality, and security in SFC deployment.
KW  - Big data; intelligent transformation; heterogeneous networks; service function chain; blockchain; deep reinforcement learning; trusted deployment

DO  - 10.32604/cmc.2025.064654