TY - GEN
T1 - Towards An Enhanced Reputation System for IOTA's Coordicide
AU - Saha, Rahul
AU - Kumar, Gulshan
AU - Brighente, Alessandro
AU - Conti, Mauro
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Reputation plays a fundamental role in the blockchain ecosystem, as it provides means to assign trust levels to participating nodes. Reputation is usually gained in time: The higher the fair participation of a node to the network, the higher its reputation. IOTA's Coordicide proposes a reputation system based on an asset named Mana. This reputation system is the base of the Coordicide's primary security protection. At present, IOTA assigns to nodes an amount of Mana equivalent of the amount of transferred funds only. However, this may lead to privacy leakage on nodes' status and may not be sufficient to fully characterize the behavior of a node in the network. Furthermore, the Mana reputation system is currently susceptible to monopoly, eclipse, and spamming attacks. An efficient and secure reputation system shall comprehend a larger number of factors to provide security and reliability.In this paper, we propose Enhanced Mana (eMana), a theoretical model for the IOTA reputation system accounting for nodes' good or bad behaviour based on their assigned tasks. We model each of the Coordicide modules having direct or indirect connections with the reputation system. In eMana the behavior of a peer node can be transparently analyzed by the other peers; thus, it is infeasible to modify the reputation value. Theoretically, eMana is flexible enough to include possible new modules' behaviour and provides a strict hard-To-gain reputation. To the best of our knowledge, eMana is the first mathematical model for Coordicide's enhanced reputation based on nodes' multi-dimensional behaviour. Additionally, eMana is generic and flexible, and may also be adaptable to other Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) systems.
AB - Reputation plays a fundamental role in the blockchain ecosystem, as it provides means to assign trust levels to participating nodes. Reputation is usually gained in time: The higher the fair participation of a node to the network, the higher its reputation. IOTA's Coordicide proposes a reputation system based on an asset named Mana. This reputation system is the base of the Coordicide's primary security protection. At present, IOTA assigns to nodes an amount of Mana equivalent of the amount of transferred funds only. However, this may lead to privacy leakage on nodes' status and may not be sufficient to fully characterize the behavior of a node in the network. Furthermore, the Mana reputation system is currently susceptible to monopoly, eclipse, and spamming attacks. An efficient and secure reputation system shall comprehend a larger number of factors to provide security and reliability.In this paper, we propose Enhanced Mana (eMana), a theoretical model for the IOTA reputation system accounting for nodes' good or bad behaviour based on their assigned tasks. We model each of the Coordicide modules having direct or indirect connections with the reputation system. In eMana the behavior of a peer node can be transparently analyzed by the other peers; thus, it is infeasible to modify the reputation value. Theoretically, eMana is flexible enough to include possible new modules' behaviour and provides a strict hard-To-gain reputation. To the best of our knowledge, eMana is the first mathematical model for Coordicide's enhanced reputation based on nodes' multi-dimensional behaviour. Additionally, eMana is generic and flexible, and may also be adaptable to other Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) systems.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Directed Acyclic Graph
KW - Ditributed Ledger Technology
KW - Reputation System
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124524771&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BCCA53669.2021.9656975
DO - 10.1109/BCCA53669.2021.9656975
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85124524771
T3 - 2021 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2021
SP - 26
EP - 33
BT - 2021 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2021
A2 - Alsmirat, Mohammad
A2 - Aloqaily, Moayad
A2 - Jararweh, Yaser
A2 - Ozkasap, Oznur
A2 - Gurcan, Onder
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2021
Y2 - 15 November 2021 through 16 November 2021
ER -