Cross-chain Transfer of Snapshot Archives for Low-overhead Peer Management in Web 3.0

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Cross-chain Transfer of Snapshot Archives for Low-overhead Peer Management in Web 3.0

Year : 2023

Publisher : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Source Title : Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2023

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Abstract

The concept of a decentralized web has been realized with the idea of Web 3.0 through interconnecting over multiple blockchain-based networks. However, blockchain incurs significant time and space overhead. This problem can be solved using snapshots that store the blockchain’s states compactly. But, the existing snapshot mechanism used in Hyperledger Fabric is limited to siloed operations on a single blockchain only. In this paper, we contribute towards overcoming this drawback by developing a novel mechanism for peer selection, snapshot archival, and cross-blockchain sharing of the snapshot. We extend the snapshot collection mechanism in Hyperledger Fabric to implement the above idea and test it over two blockchain networks emulating a decentralized web architecture.