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Blockchain Technology and Utilization Schemes in Tactical Communication Network

  • Received : 2018.10.26
  • Accepted : 2018.11.21
  • Published : 2018.12.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose schemes of blockchain utilization in tactical communication environment. The military tactical communication environment has similar characteristics with blockchain network such as distributed architecture, decentralization, and the need for data integrity. A communication node constituting a tactical communication network is constituted by a system capable of configuring and connecting a network for each node. When a communication node, having such capabilities, is configured as a node of blockchain network, various functions could be performed. In this paper, we propose utilization schemes of authentication, integrity, record management, and privilege control based blockchain technology. Functions for authentication, integrity verification, and record management need to ensure the stored data and could track history. The requirement of function's characteristics are matched to blockchain which is storing data sequentially and difficult to hack data, so that it could perform functionally and sufficiently well. Functions for authority control should be able to assign different privileges according to the state of the requestor. Smart contract will function when certain conditions are satisfied and it will be able to perform its functions by using it. In this paper, we will look over functions and utilization schemes of blockchain technology which could reliably share and synchronize data in a tactical communication environment composed of distributed network environment.

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Fig. 1. Blockchain structure

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Fig. 2. Merkle tree structure

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Fig. 3. Hash function

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Fig. 4. Encryption and decryption mechanism

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Fig. 5. Blockchain on tactical communication system

Table 1. Comparison of Permissionless and Permissioned blockchain

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Table 2. Comparison of consensus algorithms

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