An Optimization Scheme for Consortium Blockchain in Airport Collaborative Decision Making

Abstract

Consortium blockchain-based A-CDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making) was a decentralized technology solution proposed by some researchers in recent years to solve robustness, privacy, and security issues in the traditional centralized architecture. The key idea of blockchain-based A-CDM is to use blockchain technology to store the flight operation data in a distributed, consistent, and tamper-proof ledger, further improve the capability of flight management and reduce the trust barriers among the multi-stakeholders such as airport, air traffic management bureau, airlines, and ground service agency, etc. The RAFT consensus was adopted in many blockchain-based data sharing solutions to meet the need for efficiency in data transmission. However, the RAFT algorithm can only be used in a non-byzantine network because security requirements such as preventing malicious nodes are not fully considered. It will bring an immeasurable impact on flight operation when the leader node of RAFT-based A-CDM was caused by malicious control. In response to the above problems, this paper proposes an optimization scheme to improve the security performance of the consortium blockchain in A-CDM.