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The mining process of Blockchain, however, incurs a heavy computational workload for miners to solve the proof-of-work puzzle (i.e., a series of the hashing computation), which is prohibitive from the perspective of the mobile terminals (MTs). The advanced multi-access mobile edge computing (MEC), which enables the MTs to offload part of the computational workloads (for solving the proof-of-work) to the nearby edge-servers (ESs), provides a promising approach to address this issue. By offloading the computational workloads via multi-access MEC, the MTs can effectively increase their successful probabilities when participating in the mining game and gain the consequent reward (i.e., winning the bitcoin). However, as a compensation to the ESs which provide the computational resources to the MTs, the MTs need to pay the ESs for the corresponding resource-acquisition costs. Thus, to investigate the trade-off between obtaining the computational resources from the ESs (for solving the proof-of-work) and paying for the consequent cost, we formulate an optimization problem in which the MTs determine their acquired computational resources from different ESs, with the objective of maximizing the MTs\u2019 social net-reward in the mining process while keeping the fairness among the MTs. In spite of the non-convexity of the formulated problem, we exploit its layered structure and propose efficient distributed algorithms for the MTs to individually determine their optimal computational resources acquired from different ESs. Numerical results are provided to validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms and the performance of our proposed multi-access MEC for Blockchain.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18103472","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,16]],"date-time":"2018-10-16T02:52:53Z","timestamp":1539658373000},"page":"3472","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Optimal Computational Power Allocation in Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Blockchain"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2777-7915","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuan","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Xiangxu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}]},{"given":"Jiajun","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}]},{"given":"Kejie","family":"Ni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6210-2617","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liping","family":"Qian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}]},{"given":"Liang","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}]},{"given":"Kuan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68182-0572, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2084","DOI":"10.1109\/COMST.2016.2535718","article-title":"Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies","volume":"18","author":"Tschorsch","year":"2016","journal-title":"IEEE Commun. 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