On the Robustness of Quantum Algorithms for Blockchain Consensus

【Author】 Ullah, Muhammad Asad; Setiawan, Jason William; Rehman, Junaid Ur; Shin, Hyundong

【Source】SENSORS

【影响因子】3.847

【Abstract】Blockchain has revolutionized many fields, such as distributed sensor networks, finance, and cryptocurrency. Consensus between distributed network nodes is at the core of such blockchain technologies. The three primary performance measures for any consensus algorithm are scalability, security, and decentralization. This paper evaluates the usefulness and practicality of quantum consensus algorithms for blockchain-enhanced sensor, and computing networks and evaluates them against the aforementioned performance measures. In particular, we investigate their noise robustness against quantum decoherence in quantum processors and over fiber-optic channels. We observe that the quantum noise generally increases the error rate in the list distribution. However, the effect is variable on different quantum consensus schemes. For example, the entanglement-free scheme is more affected than entanglement-based schemes for the local noise cases, while in the case of noisy optical fiber links, the effect is prominent on all quantum consensus schemes. We infer that the current quantum protocols with noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices and noisy quantum communication can only be employed for modular units in intraenterprise-level blockchain, such as Zilliqa, for sensor, and computing networks.

【Keywords】blockchain consensus; quantum algorithms; quantum noise; distributed sensor networks; modular computing units

【发表时间】2022 APR

【收录时间】2022-04-26

【文献类型】实证性文章

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