Fair Outsourcing Paid in Fiat Money Using Blockchain

【Author】 Xiao, Xiangli; Zhang, Yushu; Dong, Xuewen; Wang, Liangmin; Xiang, Yong; Cao, Xiaochun

【Source】IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING

【影响因子】11.019

【Abstract】Seeking outsourcing from cloud service providers is common for resource-constrained users to complete complex computing. Conventional cloud computing outsourcing solutions focus on guiding users to verify the returned results, which is unfair since malicious users can refuse to pay by falsely claiming that the results are wrong. To address this problem, fair payment schemes, both blockchain-free and blockchain-based, have been proposed. However, the former is usually inefficient and the latter only supports payment through cryptocurrencies. The use of cryptocurrencies faces hurdles as it exposes cloud service providers to a significant risk of sharp currency price fluctuations, as well as vulnerability to government bans due to regulatory concerns. In contrast, fiat money payment is not only more in line with the business norm, but also naturally avoids the above troubles. Motivated by this, a blockchain-based fair outsourcing scheme to support payment in fiat money is proposed in this article. The proposed scheme has broad compatibility and, as an example, is subsequently instantiated with a conventional outsourcing solution of eigen-decomposition. The performance of the scheme in fairness, privacy, and efficiency is verified by both theoretical and experimental evaluations.

【Keywords】Outsourcing; Cloud computing; Blockchains; Peer-to-peer computing; Smart contracts; Fabrics; Distributed ledger; Computing outsourcing; fair payment; consortium blockchain; eigen-decomposition

【发表时间】2023 MAY-JUN

【收录时间】2023-07-29

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