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Blockchain as a service environment: a dependability evaluation

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Blockchain has become an important processing paradigm in recent years. The blockchain supports financial transactions and validates contracts, documents and data. However, the evolution of blockchain has become viable for many applications. The servers’ availability and reliability (dependence) are required in the data processing. The contract will only be signed if there are enough components to form the blockchain blocks. This paper analyses the dependency between project components that use blockchain. We present a model based on stochastic Petri net (SPN) for evaluating the dependency of the blockchain architecture. The Design of Experiments (DoE) method was used to analyse this model’s factors, seeking to know which ones had the higher impact on the system. The sensitivity analysis showed that the MongoDB component has a greater impact on the system dependency and the need to upgrade such a component. Also, for reliability, making component improvements is unnecessary if the system has fewer than 36,000 h of runtime.

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  1. Laboratory of Applied Research to Distributed Systems (PASID), Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Picos, Piauí, Brazil

    Leonel Feitosa Correia & Francisco Airton Silva

  2. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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Correia, L.F., Dantas, J.R. & Silva, F.A. Blockchain as a service environment: a dependability evaluation. J Supercomput 79, 17919–17943 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05342-9

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