Data processing scheme based on blockchain

• Published in: EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking 2020-11, Vol.2020 (1), Article 239
• Main Authors: Fu, Jinhua, Xu, Mixue, Huang, Yongzhong, Si, Xueming, Yuan, Chao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; Blockchain; Cloud computing; Communications Engineering; Containers; Cryptography; Data processing; Data retrieval; Digital currencies; Edge; Electronic government; Engineering; Fog; Human-centered Computing in Cloud; Information sharing; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Integrity; Internet of Things; Networks; Radio telescopes; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Supply chains; Synthetic apertures
• ISSN: 1687-1499; 1687-1472; 1687-1499
• DOI: 10.1186/s13638-020-01855-6

In the white paper written on Bitcoin, a chain of blocks was proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Since then, blockchain has been rapidly developed. Blockchain is not only limited to the field of cryptocurrency but also has been extensively applied to the Internet of Things, supply chain finance, electronic evidence storage, data sharing, and e-government fields. Both the public chain and the alliance chain have been extensively developed. In the data processing field, blockchain has a particularly good application potential. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposal consisting of a joint venture of more than ten countries, resulting in the world’s largest synthetic aperture radio telescope. In the SKA, the processing scale of the data is large, and it consists of several data processing nodes. The data will be processed in the cloud computing mode. Taking the SKA under consideration, this report proposes a data processing scheme based on blockchain for the anti-counterfeiting, anti-tampering and traceability of data. Furthermore, the authenticity and integrity of the data are assured. The primary aspects include data distribution, data operation and data sharing, which correspond to the data reception, data algorithm processing and result sharing of data operation in the SKA. With this process, the integrity, reliability and authenticity of the data are guaranteed. Additionally, smart contracts, homomorphic hashing, secure containers, aggregate signatures and one-way encrypted channels are implemented to ensure the intelligence, security and high performance of the process.