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A High-throughput and Secure Coded Blockchain for IoT

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2025-01-22 v2

Abstract

We propose a new coded blockchain scheme suitable for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) network. In contrast to existing works for coded blockchains, especially blockchain-of-things, the proposed scheme is more realistic, practical, and secure while achieving high throughput. This is accomplished by: 1) modeling the variety of transactions using a reward model, based on which an optimization problem is solved to select transactions that are more accessible and cheaper computational-wise to be processed together; 2) a transaction-based and lightweight consensus algorithm that emphasizes on using the minimum possible number of miners for processing the transactions; and 3) employing the raptor codes with linear-time encoding and decoding which results in requiring lower storage to maintain the blockchain and having a higher throughput. We provide detailed analysis and simulation results on the proposed scheme and compare it with the state-of-the-art coded IoT blockchain schemes including Polyshard and LCB, to show the advantages of our proposed scheme in terms of security, storage, decentralization, and throughput.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.08822,
  title  = {A High-throughput and Secure Coded Blockchain for IoT},
  author = {Amirhossein Taherpour and Xiaodong Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.08822},
  year   = {2025}
}
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