TY - GEN
T1 - ElasticChain
T2 - 2nd Asia Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2018
AU - Jia, Dayu
AU - Xin, Junchang
AU - Wang, Zhiqiong
AU - Guo, Wei
AU - Wang, Guoren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Blockchains are secure by design and they have been widely used in digital asses, trade finance, information security and many other fields. However, the current blockchain protocol requires that each full node must contain the complete chain. When the storage capacity of a full node is less than that of the complete chain, this node cannot be a member of blockchain system. With the input data increasing, the number of full nodes in blockchains would decrease. The security of blockchains would significantly reduce. Therefore, we provide the ElasticChain, which can improve storage scalability under the premise of ensuring blockchain data safety. The full nodes in ElasticChain store the part of the complete chain based on the duplicate ratio regulation algorithm. Meanwhile, the node reliability verification method was used for increasing the stability of full nodes and reducing the risk of data imperfect recovering caused by the reduction of duplicate number. The experimental results on real datasets show that ElasticChain has the same stability, fault tolerance and security with the current blockchain system and it improves the storage scalability extremely.
AB - Blockchains are secure by design and they have been widely used in digital asses, trade finance, information security and many other fields. However, the current blockchain protocol requires that each full node must contain the complete chain. When the storage capacity of a full node is less than that of the complete chain, this node cannot be a member of blockchain system. With the input data increasing, the number of full nodes in blockchains would decrease. The security of blockchains would significantly reduce. Therefore, we provide the ElasticChain, which can improve storage scalability under the premise of ensuring blockchain data safety. The full nodes in ElasticChain store the part of the complete chain based on the duplicate ratio regulation algorithm. Meanwhile, the node reliability verification method was used for increasing the stability of full nodes and reducing the risk of data imperfect recovering caused by the reduction of duplicate number. The experimental results on real datasets show that ElasticChain has the same stability, fault tolerance and security with the current blockchain system and it improves the storage scalability extremely.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96893-3_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96893-3_33
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051124646
SN - 9783319968926
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 440
EP - 454
BT - Web and Big Data - Second International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Cai, Yi
A2 - Ishikawa, Yoshiharu
A2 - Xu, Jianliang
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 23 July 2018 through 25 July 2018
ER -