A Blockchain-Indexed Storage supporting Scalable Data Integrity in Supply Chain Traceability

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the blockchain-indexed storage (BIS) to provide scalable and secure IoT-enabled supply chain traceability. Although blockchain can prevent data from being maliciously tampered with, scalability is the challenge to directly store supply chain data into blockchain. A massive IoT devices can generate enormous transactions and data which can significantly increase latency and cost. Instead of directly storing supply chain data into blockchain, BIS stores data and data fingerprint into off-chain storages and blockchain, respectively. In addition, BIS supports adaptive transaction arrival rate to control latency and cost according to demand. Our preliminary implementation and analysis show the feasibility of applying BIS to provide scalable and secure supply chain traceability.