A decision tree for building IT applications What to choose: blockchain or classical systems?

【Author】 El Madhoun, Nour; Hatin, Julien; Bertin, Emmanuel

【Source】ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

【影响因子】1.901

【Abstract】Blockchain technology has gained increasing attention from research and industry over the recent years. It allows implementing in its environment the smart-contracts technology which is used to automate and execute agreements between users. The blockchain is proposed today as a new technical infrastructure for several types of IT applications. This interest is mainly due to its core property that allows two users to perform transactions without going through a Trusted Third Party, while offering a transparent and fully protected data storage. However, a blockchain comes along a number of other intrinsic properties, which may not be suitable or beneficial in all the envisaged application cases. Consequently, we propose in this paper to design a new tool which is "a decision tree" that allows identifying when a blockchain may be the appropriate technical infrastructure for a given IT application, and when another classical system (centralized or distributed peer-to-peer) is more adapted. The proposed decision tree allows also identifying whether or not it is necessary to use the smart-contracts technology.

【Keywords】Blockchain; IT; Permissioned; Peer-to-peer; Permissionless; Security; Smart-contracts; TTP

【发表时间】2020 APR

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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