Paper Info
Title
A Trustworthy Safety Inspection Framework Using Performance-Security Balanced Blockchain
Abstract
Regular safety inspection is critical to reduce safety risk in industry. Applying the consortium blockchain technology to safety inspection can ensure the effectiveness of the inspection process and tracing of problems. However, there are two major issues when using conventional consortium blockchain. It is challenging to guarantee the authenticity of the retrieved data source, and meanwhile, achieving a balance between performance and security is not easy. Hence, this article proposes a blockchain-based performance-security balanced safety inspection framework (PSB-SIF), in which a safety inspection box is designed to ensure the authenticity of the inspector’s identity while inspection logic is executed automatically via smart contracts. In addition, this article also proposes a novel credit scoring-based Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus algorithm, named safety inspection BFT consensus algorithm (SIBFT), which is used to balance the performance and security of consensus network in a safety inspection. We evaluate the proposed approach by comparing with the solutions using RAFT, Practical BFT (PBFT), and SIBFT consensus algorithms in terms of throughput, transaction latency, scalability, and security of PSB-SIF. The evaluation results show that PSB-SIF is efficient for all these quality metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/JIOT.2021.3121512
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Authenticity,blockchain,consensus,performance-security balance,safety
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
2327-4662
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
23
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weishan Zhang100.34
Gang Sun200.34
Liang Xu300.34
Qinghua Lu414518.63
Huansheng Ning584783.48
Peiying Zhang67915.21
Su Yang711014.58