Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain

The emergence of Blockchain have revolutionize the decentralization in distributed architecture. The advances in the consensus mechanism techniques and the development of different variants of consensus algorithms gives a huge impact on its progress. These technologies allow to have a distributed pe...

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Main Authors:	Khan, Fazeel Ahmed, Ibrahim, Adamu Abubakar, Marwan, Mahmoud, Al-Khasawneh, Mahmoud Ahmad, Alarood, Ala Abdulsalam
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Published:	Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019
Subjects:	T Technology (General) TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
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spelling	iium-717972019-11-24T13:20:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/71797/ Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain Khan, Fazeel Ahmed Ibrahim, Adamu Abubakar Marwan, Mahmoud Al-Khasawneh, Mahmoud Ahmad Alarood, Ala Abdulsalam T Technology (General) TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television The emergence of Blockchain have revolutionize the decentralization in distributed architecture. The advances in the consensus mechanism techniques and the development of different variants of consensus algorithms gives a huge impact on its progress. These technologies allow to have a distributed peer-to-peer network in which each external entity can be able to interact with other entities without any trusted intermediary in a verifiable manner. The existing consensus algorithms are mostly concerned with public blockchain having focused on public ledgers in general. The consortium blockchain is least focused as compared with other variants of blockchain (public and private) showing the need to address this vacuum. In this paper, we proposed a consensus algorithm named Rift for consortium blockchain which works on the principle of trust mechanism for achieving consensus in a blockchain. The consensus is achieved by distributed nodes in a consortium blockchain which were controlled by consortium members to decentralize the arbitration by voting and trust metrics. In this paper, we elaborate the comprehensive idea of Rift and discuss the working model for this algorithm. We also perform simulation on the proposed algorithm and determine the performance variables to evaluate the effectiveness of Rift. The evaluated results show the improvement in the performance which is the objective requirement for the evaluation. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71797/1/71797_Rift-%20A%20High-Performance%20Consensus.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71797/7/71797_Rif%20a%20high-performance%20consensus%20algorithm%20_SCOPUS.pdf Khan, Fazeel Ahmed and Ibrahim, Adamu Abubakar and Marwan, Mahmoud and Al-Khasawneh, Mahmoud Ahmad and Alarood, Ala Abdulsalam (2019) Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 7 (6S). pp. 989-997. ISSN 2277-3878 https://www.ijrte.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v7i6s/F04020376S19.pdf
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spellingShingle	T Technology (General) TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television Khan, Fazeel Ahmed Ibrahim, Adamu Abubakar Marwan, Mahmoud Al-Khasawneh, Mahmoud Ahmad Alarood, Ala Abdulsalam Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain
description	The emergence of Blockchain have revolutionize the decentralization in distributed architecture. The advances in the consensus mechanism techniques and the development of different variants of consensus algorithms gives a huge impact on its progress. These technologies allow to have a distributed peer-to-peer network in which each external entity can be able to interact with other entities without any trusted intermediary in a verifiable manner. The existing consensus algorithms are mostly concerned with public blockchain having focused on public ledgers in general. The consortium blockchain is least focused as compared with other variants of blockchain (public and private) showing the need to address this vacuum. In this paper, we proposed a consensus algorithm named Rift for consortium blockchain which works on the principle of trust mechanism for achieving consensus in a blockchain. The consensus is achieved by distributed nodes in a consortium blockchain which were controlled by consortium members to decentralize the arbitration by voting and trust metrics. In this paper, we elaborate the comprehensive idea of Rift and discuss the working model for this algorithm. We also perform simulation on the proposed algorithm and determine the performance variables to evaluate the effectiveness of Rift. The evaluated results show the improvement in the performance which is the objective requirement for the evaluation.
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author	Khan, Fazeel Ahmed Ibrahim, Adamu Abubakar Marwan, Mahmoud Al-Khasawneh, Mahmoud Ahmad Alarood, Ala Abdulsalam
author_facet	Khan, Fazeel Ahmed Ibrahim, Adamu Abubakar Marwan, Mahmoud Al-Khasawneh, Mahmoud Ahmad Alarood, Ala Abdulsalam
author_sort	Khan, Fazeel Ahmed
title	Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain
title_short	Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain
title_full	Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain
title_fullStr	Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain
title_full_unstemmed	Rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for Consortium Blockchain
title_sort	rift: a high-performance consensus algorithm for consortium blockchain
publisher	Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/71797/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/71797/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/71797/1/71797_Rift-%20A%20High-Performance%20Consensus.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/71797/7/71797_Rif%20a%20high-performance%20consensus%20algorithm%20_SCOPUS.pdf
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