Designing Blockchain Based Consensus Mechanism for Smart Healthcare IoT
Trishla Kumari, Rakesh Kumar, Rajendra Kumar Dwivedi
Abstract
In today's world, healthcare system is improving day by day by using smart IoT based system. Blockchain based system is totally a decentralized system due to which attackers are unable to access the confidential records easily. Blockchain play an important role in controlling and management of sensitive information in healthcare system and insurance sector. Consensus mechanisms used in blockchain technology to validate whichever block is going to be added next in the blockchain network. In this paper we proposed a hybrid based system which solves trust issues arises in the blockchain. Hybrid consensus mechanism provides reputation according to the activities of blocks in a blockchain network. Four layer architecture is designed in Hybrid model. Five algorithms are used to create, validate, fork handling, reward and punishment scheme and Markle tree is constructed respectively. This model is implemented on Ethereum based platform which shows that HCM model is better than a PoXR model as it consume less memory (50 percent) and consume less CPU(below 2 percent).