BookChain: A Secure Library Book Storing and Sharing in Academic Institutions using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

By exploiting wireless operators, contemporary bookcrossing allows people to share books conveniently and hastens the spread of knowledge. Nevertheless, the widespread use of smartphone bookcrossing has been seriously hampered by the lack of tracking, resulting in missing and disappearance of textbooks, additionally, it leads to organizational inefficiency. Hence, we suggest using the emerging blockchain technology to exploit the advantages of its immutability and encrypted smart contract in order to overcome these difficulties. In this research, we propose a BookChain, a blockchain-based intra-campus book-sharing system that is verifiable and effective. BookChain securely records all of the book’s interacting entities on blockchain because every consumer could retrace the book’s renting activity, hence lowering the risk of a book being misplaced. Additionally, BookChain promotes the use of smart contracts to streamline the distribution of books with very little human interference, maximizing productivity. The experimental findings demonstrate the efficiency and affordability of the suggested system even with a large number of concurrent participants.