BillingOpsSC: Smart Contract-based Service Billing Management Method for Consortium Blockchain-based Systems

• Item type: Journal(1)
• 公開日: 2024-08-15
• タイトル: BillingOpsSC: Smart Contract-based Service Billing Management Method for Consortium Blockchain-based Systems
• タイトル / 言語: en
• タイトル: BillingOpsSC: Smart Contract-based Service Billing Management Method for Consortium Blockchain-based Systems
• 言語: eng
• キーワード / 主題Scheme: Other
• キーワード / 主題: [特集:“Applications and the Internet” in Conjunction with the Main Topics of COMPSAC 2023] consortium blockchain, hyperledger fabric, billing management, system operations, smart contract
• 資源タイプ / 資源タイプ識別子: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
• 資源タイプ: journal article
• 著者所属: Hitachi Ltd.／Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• 著者所属: Hitachi Ltd.
• 著者所属: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Hitachi Ltd. / Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Hitachi Ltd.
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• 著者名: Tatsuya, Sato; Taku, Shimosawa; Nariyoshi, Yamai
• 著者名(英): Tatsuya, Sato; Taku, Shimosawa; Nariyoshi, Yamai
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述: Enterprises have focused much of their attention on consortium blockchains, in which multiple authorized organizations participate to form a consortium, in contrast to public blockchains, which consist of unspecified participants. Since a system using a blockchain is based on participants providing/using resources such as nodes to each other, a mechanism to motivate participants to provide resources is important. Typically, a public blockchain realizes an incentive mechanism for providing nodes by unspecified participants through mining rewards and transaction fees associated with a consensus algorithm such as PoW on the platform layer. On the other hand, a consortium blockchain usually does not have an incentive mechanism in the platform itself. In order to maintain and operate a consortium, it is essential that participating organizations provide resources or pay the costs of providing resources. However, because participating organizations use different percentages of the resources, a uniform fee could create inequalities or unfair situations among organizations. Therefore, it is necessary to manage billing to remove the gap between the costs borne and the actual usage or/and the unfairness among participants in the consortium. This research aims to realize a billing management method for consortium blockchain-based systems. We propose a smart contract-based service billing management mechanism named “BillingOpsSC” to ensure cross-organizational transparency for billing calculation and management. Furthermore, to ensure fairness among participants, we design a billing calculation model based on metering of the “contribution” by each organization such as providing resources, and the system “usage” by each organization, in the consortium. We implement a prototype of the proposed method including the billing management mechanism and calculation model for Hyperledger Fabric, which is one of the major consortium blockchains, and evaluate the method using the prototype. The results show that our proposed method is effective in ensuring transparency and fairness in billing management among multiple organizations, and in terms of performance is practical enough to be used in making monthly billing calculations.; ------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.32(2024) (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.32.605; ------------------------------
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述: Enterprises have focused much of their attention on consortium blockchains, in which multiple authorized organizations participate to form a consortium, in contrast to public blockchains, which consist of unspecified participants. Since a system using a blockchain is based on participants providing/using resources such as nodes to each other, a mechanism to motivate participants to provide resources is important. Typically, a public blockchain realizes an incentive mechanism for providing nodes by unspecified participants through mining rewards and transaction fees associated with a consensus algorithm such as PoW on the platform layer. On the other hand, a consortium blockchain usually does not have an incentive mechanism in the platform itself. In order to maintain and operate a consortium, it is essential that participating organizations provide resources or pay the costs of providing resources. However, because participating organizations use different percentages of the resources, a uniform fee could create inequalities or unfair situations among organizations. Therefore, it is necessary to manage billing to remove the gap between the costs borne and the actual usage or/and the unfairness among participants in the consortium. This research aims to realize a billing management method for consortium blockchain-based systems. We propose a smart contract-based service billing management mechanism named “BillingOpsSC” to ensure cross-organizational transparency for billing calculation and management. Furthermore, to ensure fairness among participants, we design a billing calculation model based on metering of the “contribution” by each organization such as providing resources, and the system “usage” by each organization, in the consortium. We implement a prototype of the proposed method including the billing management mechanism and calculation model for Hyperledger Fabric, which is one of the major consortium blockchains, and evaluate the method using the prototype. The results show that our proposed method is effective in ensuring transparency and fairness in billing management among multiple organizations, and in terms of performance is practical enough to be used in making monthly billing calculations.; ------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.32(2024) (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.32.605; ------------------------------
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子タイプ: NCID
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子: AN00116647
• 書誌情報: 情報処理学会論文誌; 巻 65, 号 8, 発行日 2024-08-15
• ISSN / 収録物識別子タイプ: ISSN
• ISSN / 収録物識別子: 1882-7764
• 公開者 / 言語: ja
• 公開者 / 出版者: 情報処理学会