Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS
The current state of the web, which is dominated by centralized cloud services, raises several concerns regarding different aspects such as governance, privacy, surveillance, and security. A way to address these issues is to decentralize the platforms by adopting new distributed technologies, such a...
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| description | The current state of the web, which is dominated by centralized cloud services, raises several concerns regarding different aspects such as governance, privacy, surveillance, and security. A way to address these issues is to decentralize the platforms by adopting new distributed technologies, such as IPFS and Blockchain, which follow a full peer-to-peer model. This work proposes a set of guidelines to design decentralized systems, taking the different trade-offs these technologies face with regard to their consistency requirements into consideration. These guidelines are then illustrated with the design of a decentralized questions and answers system. This system serves to illustrate a framework to create decentralized services and applications that uses IPFS and Blockchain technologies and incorporates the discussion and guidelines of the paper, providing solutions for data access, data provenance, and data discovery. Thus, this work proposes a framework to assist in the design of new decentralized systems, proposing a set of guidelines to choose the appropriate technologies depending on the relevant requirements; e.g., considering if Blockchain technology may be required or IPFS might be sufficient. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-564522a5f6d9448082a3788413af211b2023-11-22T20:26:32ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-10-0111211001210.3390/app112110012Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFSÁmbar Tenorio-Fornés0Samer Hassan1Juan Pavón2GRASIA, Institute of Knowledge Technology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Decentralized Science, Decentralized Academy SL, 28040 Madrid, SpainGRASIA, Institute of Knowledge Technology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Decentralized Science, Decentralized Academy SL, 28040 Madrid, SpainGRASIA, Institute of Knowledge Technology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Decentralized Science, Decentralized Academy SL, 28040 Madrid, SpainThe current state of the web, which is dominated by centralized cloud services, raises several concerns regarding different aspects such as governance, privacy, surveillance, and security. A way to address these issues is to decentralize the platforms by adopting new distributed technologies, such as IPFS and Blockchain, which follow a full peer-to-peer model. This work proposes a set of guidelines to design decentralized systems, taking the different trade-offs these technologies face with regard to their consistency requirements into consideration. These guidelines are then illustrated with the design of a decentralized questions and answers system. This system serves to illustrate a framework to create decentralized services and applications that uses IPFS and Blockchain technologies and incorporates the discussion and guidelines of the paper, providing solutions for data access, data provenance, and data discovery. Thus, this work proposes a framework to assist in the design of new decentralized systems, proposing a set of guidelines to choose the appropriate technologies depending on the relevant requirements; e.g., considering if Blockchain technology may be required or IPFS might be sufficient.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10012decentralizationdistributed systemsP2P systemsIPFSBlockchainmulti-agent systems |
| spellingShingle | Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés Samer Hassan Juan Pavón Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS Applied Sciences decentralization distributed systems P2P systems IPFS Blockchain multi-agent systems |
| title | Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS |
| title_full | Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS |
| title_fullStr | Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS |
| title_full_unstemmed | Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS |
| title_short | Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS |
| title_sort | peer to peer system design trade offs a framework exploring the balance between blockchain and ipfs |
| topic | decentralization distributed systems P2P systems IPFS Blockchain multi-agent systems |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10012 |
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