Gateways-based Interoperability for DLT
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) to manage data in a decentralised way. During the last years, interoperability has become one of the main challenges within blockchain research as blockchains increasingly require integration between each other. Indeed, blockchains work by design...
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Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática
2023-09-01
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| author | Guzman Llambias Bruno Bradach Juan Nogueira Laura González Raúl Ruggia |
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Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) to manage data in a decentralised way. During the last years, interoperability has become one of the main challenges within blockchain research as blockchains increasingly require integration between each other. Indeed, blockchains work by design in silos of information as interoperability is not a native feature. The main efforts in the field are focused on blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, interoperability in DLT remains as an almost untouched area of work as they introduce additional requirements focusing on privacy and identity. Although there are some interoperability solutions for DLT, they are either high-level design proposals not providing concrete implementations or focus on interoperability issues between business applications and blockchain platforms. In this paper we propose a gateway-based platform-to-platform interoperability solution for DLT, which comprises a detailed solution design and a reference implementation. The proposal was assessed through the development of a social security case scenario and the evaluation through two interoperability frameworks. A reference implementation was built using two DLT: Hyperledger Fabric and Corda. The experimental results shows that it is possible to achieve technical interoperability between two heterogeneous DLT platforms using a gateway-based interoperability solution, relaxing decentralisation, data privacy, identity and authorisation management properties.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b94167d709454b9eadf60ed623a529b02023-09-22T11:10:09ZengCentro Latinoamericano de Estudios en InformáticaCLEI Electronic Journal0717-50002023-09-01262Gateways-based Interoperability for DLTGuzman Llambias0Bruno BradachJuan NogueiraLaura GonzálezRaúl RuggiaUniversidad de la República Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) to manage data in a decentralised way. During the last years, interoperability has become one of the main challenges within blockchain research as blockchains increasingly require integration between each other. Indeed, blockchains work by design in silos of information as interoperability is not a native feature. The main efforts in the field are focused on blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, interoperability in DLT remains as an almost untouched area of work as they introduce additional requirements focusing on privacy and identity. Although there are some interoperability solutions for DLT, they are either high-level design proposals not providing concrete implementations or focus on interoperability issues between business applications and blockchain platforms. In this paper we propose a gateway-based platform-to-platform interoperability solution for DLT, which comprises a detailed solution design and a reference implementation. The proposal was assessed through the development of a social security case scenario and the evaluation through two interoperability frameworks. A reference implementation was built using two DLT: Hyperledger Fabric and Corda. The experimental results shows that it is possible to achieve technical interoperability between two heterogeneous DLT platforms using a gateway-based interoperability solution, relaxing decentralisation, data privacy, identity and authorisation management properties. https://clei.org/cleiej/index.php/cleiej/article/view/590 |
| spellingShingle | Guzman Llambias Bruno Bradach Juan Nogueira Laura González Raúl Ruggia Gateways-based Interoperability for DLT CLEI Electronic Journal |
| title | Gateways-based Interoperability for DLT |
| title_full | Gateways-based Interoperability for DLT |
| title_fullStr | Gateways-based Interoperability for DLT |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gateways-based Interoperability for DLT |
| title_short | Gateways-based Interoperability for DLT |
| title_sort | gateways based interoperability for dlt |
| url | https://clei.org/cleiej/index.php/cleiej/article/view/590 |
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