{"title":"Going Beyond the Blockchain Hype: In Which Cases are Blockchains Useful for IT Applications?","authors":"Nour El Madhoun, Julien Hatin, E. Bertin","doi":"10.1109/CSNet47905.2019.9108966","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain technology is today proposed as a new technical infrastructure for several types of IT applications. This interest is due to its unique property that allows two entities to perform transactions, in a very secure manner, without going through a TTP. However, a blockchain comes along a number of other intrinsic properties, which may not be suitable or beneficial in all the envisaged application cases. Consequently, we propose in this paper a decision tree to identify when a blockchain may be the appropriate technical infrastructure for a given IT application, and when another system (centralized or distributed peer-to-peer) is more adapted. This tree is based on a comparative study between the blockchain and classical \"centralized and distributed peer-to-peer\" systems.","PeriodicalId":350566,"journal":{"name":"2019 3rd Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2019 3rd Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNet47905.2019.9108966","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Blockchain technology is today proposed as a new technical infrastructure for several types of IT applications. This interest is due to its unique property that allows two entities to perform transactions, in a very secure manner, without going through a TTP. However, a blockchain comes along a number of other intrinsic properties, which may not be suitable or beneficial in all the envisaged application cases. Consequently, we propose in this paper a decision tree to identify when a blockchain may be the appropriate technical infrastructure for a given IT application, and when another system (centralized or distributed peer-to-peer) is more adapted. This tree is based on a comparative study between the blockchain and classical "centralized and distributed peer-to-peer" systems.