RT Journal Article
T1 Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS
A1 Tenorio-Fornés, Ámbar
A1 Hassan Collado, Samer
A1 Pavón Mestras, Juan Luis
AB The current state of the web, which is dominated by centralized cloud services, raises several concerns regarding different aspects such as governance, privacy, surveillance, and security. A way to address these issues is to decentralize the platforms by adopting new distributed technologies, such as IPFS and Blockchain, which follow a full peer-to-peer model. This work proposes a set of guidelines to design decentralized systems, taking the different trade-offs these technologies face with regard to their consistency requirements into consideration. These guidelines are then illustrated with the design of a decentralized questions and answers system. This system serves to illustrate a framework to create decentralized services and applications that uses IPFS and Blockchain technologies and incorporates the discussion and guidelines of the paper, providing solutions for data access, data provenance, and data discovery. Thus, this work proposes a framework to assist in the design of new decentralized systems, proposing a set of guidelines to choose the appropriate technologies depending on the relevant requirements; e.g., considering if Blockchain technology may be required or IPFS might be sufficient.
PB MDPI
SN 2076-3417
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95558
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95558
LA eng
NO Tenorio-Fornés, Á.; Hassan, S.; Pavón, J. Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 10012. https://doi.org/10.3390/app112110012
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
NO European Commission
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025