Title: A channel matching scheme for cross-chain

Authors: Wei She; Zhi-hao Gu; Wei Liu; Jian-sen Chen; Bo Wang; Zhao Tian

Addresses: School of Software Technology, Cooperative Innovation Center of Internet Healthcare, Zhengzhou University, Water Environment Governance and Ecological Restoration Academician Workstation of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China ' School of Software Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China ' School of Software Technology, Cooperative Innovation Center of Internet Healthcare, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China ' Cooperative Innovation Center of Internet Healthcare, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China ' State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY 14260, USA ' School of Software Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Abstract: At present, the cross-chain technology works on becoming a bridge to build trust and transmit the information among chains. However, most of the existing schemes have poor universality, and they also have insufficient protection for the process of information cross-chain transmission. Contraposing the deficiencies above, we propose a channel matching scheme for cross-chain (CMSCC), CMSCC combines the ideas of the relay chain scheme and the channel in Fabric. The relay chain named chain-anchor and relay-chain (CARC) can be connected to other blockchains by multi-blockchain communication and consociation protocol (MBCCP). In CARC, the order peers will match the peers which on different chains and will create the peer matching channel (PMC) among matched peers. So, the information can be transmitted among matched peers. Finally, the experiment verifies that CMSCC enables information to be transmitted among chains through PMC, and CMSCC can also protect the process of information cross-chain transmission by PMC simultaneously.

Keywords: blockchain; cross-chain; relay chain; channel; transmission.

DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2020.107646

International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2020 Vol.12 No.4, pp.500 - 509

Received: 12 Mar 2019
Accepted: 07 Aug 2019
Published online: 03 Jun 2020 *

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