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FlexiChain: A Minerless Scalable Next Generation Blockchain for Rapid Data and Device Security in Large Scale Complex Cyber-Physical Systems

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The advancement of technology in several fields has given the opportunity to change the conventional ways of the daily services and activities to a better, easier, efficient, and fully or partially automated manner. Cyber-physical system (CPS) application interactions using distributed ledger technology (DLT) will enrich the conventional ways. We propose a DLT designed based on CPS application requirements to transform the traditional paradigm to a decentralized version. The proposed technology ensures the security of the process and the integrity of the participant in a flexible ledger that includes a virtual version of the actual nodes that are part of the network. The whole technology comprises of two essential algorithms: the registration and the authentication, each of which has been experimented with and analyzed. The experiment conducted for three different cases of 10, 20, and 30 nodes, respectively, and the average registration time was 0.48, 0.54, and 0.7 ms. The average authentication time for the three cases was 3, 2.42, 1.23 ms/tx.

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    Ahmad J. Alkhodair & Saraju P. Mohanty

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Alkhodair, A.J., Mohanty, S.P. & Kougianos, E. FlexiChain: A Minerless Scalable Next Generation Blockchain for Rapid Data and Device Security in Large Scale Complex Cyber-Physical Systems. SN COMPUT. SCI. 3, 235 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01139-4

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