Title
Towards a management plane for smart contracts: Ethereum case study.
Abstract
Blockchain is an emerging foundational technology with the potential to create a novel economic and social system. The complexity of the technology poses many challenges and foremost amongst these are monitoring and management of blockchain-based decentralized applications. In this paper, we design, implement and evaluate a novel system to enable management operations in smart contracts. A key aspect of our system is that it facilitates the integration of these operations through dedicated 'managing' smart contracts to provide data filtering as per the role of the smart contract-based application user. We evaluate the overhead costs of such data filtering operations after post-deployment analyses of five categories of smart contracts on the Ethereum public testnet, Rinkeby. We also build a monitoring tool to display public blockchain data using a dashboard coupled with a notification mechanism of any changes in private data to the administrator of the monitored decentralized application.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Data filtering,Computer science,Computer security,Authorization,Computer network,Social system,Blockchain,Dashboard (business),Management plane,Overhead (business),Smart contract
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1542-1201
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nida Khan100.68
Abdelkader Lahmadi29018.46
Jérôme François317021.81
Radu State462386.87