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AirCargoChain: A Distributed and Scalable Data Sharing Approach of Blockchain for Air Cargo

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Air cargo involves large-scale data and multiple stakeholders, i.e., airports, airlines, agents, and clients. How to enable stakeholders to share data in a secure way is essential, since it improves efficiency for various processes among stakeholders. This paper proposes AirCargoChain, a blockchain-based data sharing approach for air cargo, which has the following advantages: (a) secure: we propose a blockchain-based cooperative network architecture, Cooperative Network (CN), to allow mutually distrusted stakeholders to manage data collaboratively. (b) scalable: we design a storage scheme, Off-Chain Storage (OCS), based on IPFS to support large-scale data storage; (c) user-friendly: we provide effective communication mechanism and convenient contract name service in Node Communication (NC) and Contract Management (CM), respectively. A comprehensive evaluation offers insight into the applicability and effectiveness of AirCargoChain.

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This work was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61902385), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China (No. 2019A1515011705, 2018A030313943), Shenzhen Basic Research Foundation (No. JCYJ20180302145645821, JCYJ20180302145633177).

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Le, G., Gu, Q., Qu, Q. et al. AirCargoChain: A Distributed and Scalable Data Sharing Approach of Blockchain for Air Cargo. J Grid Computing 18, 629–638 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-020-09535-x

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