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With the continuous maturity and evolution of blockchain, applying blockchain to edge computing has increasingly become a trend, and also brings many great challenges. For the traditional blockchain structure, each peer node of blockchain network stores exactly the same content, which leads to strong data redundancy and excessive storage capacity is wasted. In this paper, we propose a novel blockchain network structure to reduce the storage occupation for blockchain node, which combine multiple physical nodes into one logical node and try to ensure that the storage capacity between the logical nodes is similar. The experimental simulation results show that the proposed new blockchain network structure can effectively reduce the storage usage of physical nodes and decrease the difficulty to deploy blockchain to the edge network.
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This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2019YFB1703601), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61672131), and the new Generation of Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Major Project of Tianjin (No. 19ZXZNGX00010).
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Chi, J., Qiu, T., Zhang, C., Zhao, L. (2020). A Novel Blockchain Network Structure Based on Logical Nodes. In: Yu, D., Dressler, F., Yu, J. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12384. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59016-1_6
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