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Multi-level caching and data verification based on ethereum blockchain

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Ethereum realizes the application of programs on the blockchain through smart contracts and the peer-to-peer transmission of nodes through consensus mechanisms. In this paper, through smart contracts, cache nodes and three-level cache mechanism are proposed, so that users can efficiently obtain contents through three-level cache in a large-scale network environment to speed up response and reduce network burden; what’s more, to ensure data integrity and accuracy in the untrusted public Ethereum blockchain, RSA&VT integrity verification methods are also introduced, and a large number of tree shapes are saved through IPFS under the chain structure to verify the content integrity, and only a small portion of the verification credentials and verification results are required to be transmitted in the network. Through experiments, it is proved that the request response time of the three-level caching mechanism is better than the ordinary FIFO cache; the performance of RSA&VT method is also better than the Signature scheme from bilinear maps.

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The work was supported by the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Chongqing Jiaotong University under grants (SLK2021A01), the Open Fund of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of information agriculture of Jiangsu Province, the Open Research Fund Program of Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining and Knowledge Services in Agricultural Converging Publishing, National Press and Publication Administration (2022KMKS01).

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    Qingzhe Zhang, Chunlin Li, Tianyu Du & Youlong Luo

  2. Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

    Qingzhe Zhang & Chunlin Li

  3. Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining and Knowledge Services in Agricultural Converging Publishing of National Press and Publication Administration, Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Chunlin Li & Tianyu Du

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Zhang, Q., Li, C., Du, T. et al. Multi-level caching and data verification based on ethereum blockchain. Wireless Netw 29, 713–727 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03151-1

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