LOPE: A Low-Overhead Payment Verification Method for Blockchains

doi:10.1049/cje.2021.02.008

	LOPE: A Low-Overhead Payment Verification Method for Blockchains
	Ying Zhang 1,2; Zhengyuan He 1; Linpeng Jia 2,3; Donghui Ding 2,3; Hanwen Zhang 2; Yi Sun 2,3
	2021-03-01
发表期刊	CHINESE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS
ISSN	1022-4653
卷号	30 期号:2 页码:349-358
摘要	With its characteristics of decentralization, security, data traceability, and tamper-resistance, the blockchain has been widely used in various domains. Considering the difference in the performance of the devices, the light client is proposed so that devices without the ability to store a full blockchain copy can also participate in the blockchain transactions. However, the light client has to communicate with full nodes and verify the authenticity of a transaction which brings in some extent of communication, computation, and storage overheads to the light client. These overheads cannot be ignored for some low-performance devices, such as embedded devices or IoT chips, and therefore the current light client scheme does not work in this situation. We propose LOPE (a Low-overhead payment vErification method) for poor-capacity nodes in the blockchain system. In LOPE, a grouping protocol is designed to partition full nodes into groups to serve the verification requests of the light client. In addition, Practical byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) is used to ensure the light client to get a credible result in spite of a few dishonest nodes existing in the group. We conduct LOPE and evaluate it in a testbed. The experiment results show that LOPE reduces more than half of the communication overhead, degrades the computation overhead of the light client to a large extent, and avoids the storage overhead of the hash roots of block headers in the light client. We also conduct theoretical analysis to show the performance improvement and security issues of LOPE.
关键词	Blockchain Light client Low‐ overhead Payment verification
DOI	10.1049/cje.2021.02.008
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key R&D Program of China[2019YFB1404903] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61672499] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61772502] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61972382] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61974105] ; Key Special Project of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission[Z181100003218018]
WOS研究方向	Engineering
WOS类目	Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000639915000018
出版者	TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE LIMITED HONG KONG
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/17860
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Yi Sun
作者单位	1.Tongji Univ, Sch Software Engn, Shanghai 201804, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Blockchain Lab, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Comp Sci & Technol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ying Zhang,Zhengyuan He,Linpeng Jia,et al. LOPE: A Low-Overhead Payment Verification Method for Blockchains[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS,2021,30(2):349-358.
APA	Ying Zhang,Zhengyuan He,Linpeng Jia,Donghui Ding,Hanwen Zhang,&Yi Sun.(2021).LOPE: A Low-Overhead Payment Verification Method for Blockchains.CHINESE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS,30(2),349-358.
MLA	Ying Zhang,et al."LOPE: A Low-Overhead Payment Verification Method for Blockchains".CHINESE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS 30.2(2021):349-358.