Table 2 List of simulation parameters and values.

From: Investigation of personal data protection mechanism based on blockchain technology

Simulation parameters

Numerical range

\(a\)

8 × 10–6/M bytes

\({\lambda }_{i}\)

[10, 100]

\({\mu }_{i}\)

[0.1, 2]

\(\Delta \alpha\)

0.02

\(\tau\)

0.1/M bytes

\(C\)

100

Number of users

[100, 1000]

Initial value of \(\alpha\) in Option 2

0.1

Initial value of \(\alpha\) in Option 3

0.9

Range of \(\alpha\) in the iterative algorithm

[0, 1]