A notary group-based cross-chain mechanism  

作　　者：Anping Xiong Guihua Liu Qingyi Zhu Ankui Jing Seng W.Loke 

机构地区：[1]School of Computer Science and Technology,Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Chongqing,400065,China [2]School of Cyber Security and Information Law,Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Chongqing,400065,China [3]School of Information Technology,Deakin University,Victoria,3125,Australia

出　　处：《Digital Communications and Networks》2022年第6期1059-1067,共9页数字通信与网络（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61903056 and 61702066);the Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (No. cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0681).

摘　　要：As an emerging distributed technology, blockchain has begun to penetrate into many fields such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, intelligent transportation. However, the interoperability and value exchange between different independent blockchain systems is restricting the expansion of blockchain. In this paper, a notary group-based cross-chain interaction model is proposed to achieve the interoperability between different blockchains. Firstly, a notary election mechanism is proposed to choose one notary from the notary group to act as a bridge for cross-chain transactions. Secondly, a margin pool is introduced to limit the misconduct of the elected notary and ensure the value transfer between the involved blockchains. Moreover, a reputation based incentive mechanism is used to encourage members of the notary group to participate in cross-chain transactions. Ethereum-based experiments demonstrate that the proposed mechanism can provide an acceptable performance for cross-chain transactions and provide a higher security level than ordinary cross-chain mechanisms.

关 键 词：Blockchain Cross-chain Notary group Reputation ranking Incentive mechanisms 

分 类 号：TN91[电子电信—通信与信息系统]