The Blockchain as a Software Connector

By Xiwei Xu, Cesare Pautasso, Liming Zhu, Vincent Gramoli, Alexander Ponomarev, An Binh Tran, Shiping Chen. Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, 2016

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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A Survey on the Security of Blockchain Systems (2017, methodology): “At the same time, the blockchain technique has been applied to many fields, including medicine [4, 5, 6], economics [7, 8, 9], Internet of things [10, 11, 12], software engineering [13, 14, 15] and so on.”
A Vademecum on Blockchain Technologies: When, Which, and How (2019, background): “storage that results more intuitive in private networks that ease communications between the off-chain storage system and the blockchain [118].”
A Survey on Information and Communication Technologies for Industry 4.0: State-of-the-Art, Taxonomies, Perspectives, and Challenges (2019, result): “compared with global credit-card payments, Bitcoin results two to three orders of magnitude slower [299].”
DistBlockNet: A Distributed Blockchains-Based Secure SDN Architecture for IoT Networks (2017, background): “The blockchains technique offers a distributed peer-to-peer network where, without a trusted intermediary, untrusted individuals can interact in a verifiable manner with each other [13, 14].”
A Taxonomy of Blockchain-Based Systems for Architecture Design (2017, background): “In regards to cost efficiency, performance, and flexibility, major design decisions in using a blockchain include choosing what data and computation should be placed on-chain and what should be kept off-chain [28].”
Blockchain-enabled supply chain: An experimental study (2019, background): “Services cannot be executed in every blockchain but they require the support of smart contracts (Xu et al., 2016) and have been grouped into three categories: • the Communication services, which represent the act of transferring data between different modules and can be easily executed with a…”
Blockchain-based Smart Contracts: A Systematic Mapping Study (2017, background): “Smart contracts, which will be discussed in the following section, are considered as the main element of this generation [4].”
Architecture for Blockchain Applications (2019, background): “This chapter is partly based on our earlier works (Xu et al. 2016; Yu et al. 2017).”
When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review on Current Development and Potential Applications (2020, background): “The scope of this research ranges from technical discussion [14], [15], application feasibility [16], business operations [4], to even legal issues [17] and user acceptance [18].”
Blockchain-Enabled Smart Contracts: Architecture, Applications, and Future Trends (2019, background): “grammable transactions [6].”
Supply chain re-engineering using blockchain technology: A case of smart contract based tracking process (2019, background): “The accessibility of information originally stored in supply chain participants’ internal, centralized databases depends on further communication with other participants to obtain the required non-local information (Xu et al., 2016).”
Blockchain technology in agri-food value chain management: A synthesis of applications, challenges and future research directions (2019, methodology): “The blockchain as a software connector (Xu et al. 2016); 3.”
From blockchain consensus back to Byzantine consensus (2017, background): “Blockchain systems resemble replicated state machine [47] and aim at solving the consensus problem, so that for a given index all correct processes agree on a unique block of transactions at this index.”
A blockchain-based smart grid: towards sustainable local energy markets (2017, background): “To conclude, a blockchain provides a distributed software architecture [41] that enables agents (human or artificial) to interact without a central governing institution.”