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Design of a Novel Side Chaining Model for Improving the Performance of Security Aware E-Voting Applications

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Mobile Radio Communications and 5G Networks

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 588))

Abstract

Electronic voting (E-Voting) has been described as one of the most efficient methods of collecting consensus-based decisions about a particular entity. These systems are useful for a wide variety of application scales, which range from selecting candidates at small corporations to nationwide elections. But voting systems face inherent security and quality of service (QoS) issues, which limits their public-domain deployments. Due to many sources of vulnerability, such as mutability, poor traceability, reduced trust levels, and centralized computing design, these systems are susceptible to attack by hackers and other adversaries. The usage of blockchain-based computing models, in which each set of votes is translated into a transaction, and these transactions are kept inside smart contracts, can be used to tackle these problems. These smart contracts are turned into blocks and kept in a decentralized blockchain database for storage. This database uses an improved unidirectional linked list, where each block is connected to the next block via a unique hash value. Due to the uniqueness of connecting hashes, this model exhibits immutability, which is one of the main reasons for its use in e-Voting systems. Secondly, hashes are generated using a decentralized mining mechanism, due to which the blockchain database is stored on multiple nodes, and is resilient against denial of service (DoS), Sybil, masquerading, and other server-based attacks. Similarly, the blockchain model also possesses transparency, and traceability, which makes it an ideal candidate for e-Voting systems. But the delay of voting increases exponentially w.r.t. the number of transactions, which is due to the fact that the addition of each block requires mining nodes to generate a new unique hash, which requires scanning of the entire blockchain. This limits the scalability of the blockchain model, which makes it unusable for larger-scale networks. In order to remove this drawback, a novel sidechaining mechanism is proposed in this text, wherein sidechains are created and managed using a firefly optimization model, which uses a number of parties and cast votes per party parameters. Due to this dynamic model for sidechain creation and management, the proposed method is capable of reducing transaction delay by 28% when compared with a single blockchain, and 16% when compared with static sidechain methods. Additionally, the model was tested on medium to large-scale e-Voting applications, and it was discovered that, when compared to other cutting edge models, it is capable of improving throughput by 8% and reducing storage cost by 18%. The proposed sidechain paradigm can be used for a wide range of e-Voting application deployments as a result of these benefits.

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    Hemlata Wamanrao Kohad

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  3. Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India

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Kohad, H.W., Kumar, S., Ambhaikar, A. (2023). Design of a Novel Side Chaining Model for Improving the Performance of Security Aware E-Voting Applications. In: Marriwala, N., Tripathi, C., Jain, S., Kumar, D. (eds) Mobile Radio Communications and 5G Networks. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 588. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7982-8_2

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