Systems (Jun 2022)

Blockchain Traceability System in Complex Application Scenarios: Image-Based Interactive Traceability Structure

  • Chunhua Ju,
  • Zhonghua Shen,
  • Fuguang Bao,
  • Zhikai Wen,
  • Xi Ran,
  • Chaoyang Yu,
  • Chonghuan Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10030078
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
p. 78

Abstract

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To solve the problems exposed by the application of blockchain technology under complex scenarios, such as fraudulent use of data, hard to store huge amounts of data, and low traceability efficiency under an ultra-huge number of traceability requests, this paper constructs an image-based interactive traceability structure by using images as an enhancement. By adding pointers to raw image files, a specific file structure is formed for traceability, and the traceability process is separated from the verification process, therefore realizing the distributed traceability of “traceability off the chain and verification on the chain”. The experimental results show that, compared with the traditional blockchain traceability mode, the interactive traceability structure can reduce the data retrieval pressure and greatly improve the traceability efficiency of a specific transaction chain. With the growth of the span of the transaction chain, the traceability efficiency advantage of the interactive traceability structure becomes more obvious.

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