Decoupling Consensus and Storage in Consortium Blockchains by Erasure Codes

Dejun Xiang; Rui Zhou; Lingfei Ma; Qingming Zeng; Ximing Fu; Qiang Wang; Bin Chen; Yan Jia

doi:10.1109/ICDIS55630.2022.00037

Decoupling Consensus and Storage in Consortium Blockchains by Erasure Codes

Dejun Xiang
, Rui Zhou
, Lingfei Ma
, Qingming Zeng
, Ximing Fu^*
, Qiang Wang
, Bin Chen
, Yan Jia

^*Corresponding author for this work

Guangdong Power Exchange Company
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Security Intelligence Technologies

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel framework in consortium blockchains, where the consensus and storage can be decoupled. For consensus, we propose a simplified version of Sinc HotStuff, in which the block equivocation can be avoided. With the help of a distributed storage system employing an erasure code, the storage is asymptotically constant on the size of the total blocks, but independent on the number of consensus nodes, such that the storage of the blockchain is reduced significantly. In addition, the storage system with (N, k) maximum-distance separable (MDS) codes has the ability to handle N - k crashes or N- k/2 Byzantine errors such that the new framework is more flexible.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	194-199
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665459686
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDIS55630.2022.00037
State	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022 - Shenzhen, China Duration: 24 Aug 2022 → 26 Aug 2022

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Name	Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022

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Conference	4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022
Country/Territory	China
City	Shenzhen
Period	24/08/22 → 26/08/22

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consensus
consortium blockchain
erasure codes
storage

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Xiang, D., Zhou, R., Ma, L., Zeng, Q., Fu, X., Wang, Q., Chen, B., & Jia, Y. (2022). Decoupling Consensus and Storage in Consortium Blockchains by Erasure Codes. In Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022 (pp. 194-199). (Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDIS55630.2022.00037

Xiang, Dejun ; Zhou, Rui ; Ma, Lingfei et al. / Decoupling Consensus and Storage in Consortium Blockchains by Erasure Codes. Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. pp. 194-199 (Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022).

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Xiang, D, Zhou, R, Ma, L, Zeng, Q, Fu, X , Wang, Q, Chen, B & Jia, Y 2022, Decoupling Consensus and Storage in Consortium Blockchains by Erasure Codes. in Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022. Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 194-199, 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022, Shenzhen, China, 24/08/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDIS55630.2022.00037

Decoupling Consensus and Storage in Consortium Blockchains by Erasure Codes. / Xiang, Dejun; Zhou, Rui; Ma, Lingfei et al.
Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 194-199 (Proceedings - 2022 4th International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, ICDIS 2022).

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