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IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (IEEE INFOCOM 2019)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 829-837Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/infocom.2019.8737490
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61772080]
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The great market success of Blockchain makes it an extremely valuable target for attackers. A well-known attack in Blockchain is the forking wrack, where divergent blockchains are produced for inserting some new features to facilitate security breaches. The state-of-the-art works mostly focus on how to detect attacks in real-time transactions, which is in hindsight and cannot deter the lOrking attack from the root. To take precautions, we employ the large deviation theory to study the vulnerability of blockchain networks incurred by intentional forks front a micro point of view, boosting forward-looking and strategic planning mechanisms for resisting the forking attack. Our study is fine-grained, because it offers not only the vulnerability probability of a blockchain network but also its decay speed, through which we find setting the parameter related to the robust level has more power than enhancing the computer power in speeding up the failure of attacks. This finding is valuable since it renders an opportunity to improve the robustness of a blockchain network in a cost-efficient way. Our analysis is comp/ementory, since it studies both the impacts of the computational power as well as the number of confirmations on the vulnerability of a blockchain network, providing a theoretical basis to design reasonable schemes for invigorating a blockchain network from technical as well as managerial levels. Extensive experiments carried out on a large-scale cloud plathirm running the Ethereum protocol show the experimental and analytical results match well, verifying the effectiveness of our analysis.
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