A Peer-to-peer Purchase and Rental Smart Contract-based Application (PuRSCA)
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Sina Rafati Niya
Sina Rafati Niya is with the Communications Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich UZH, started his Ph. D. in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology engineering from Urmia University of Technology Iran, In 2015. Since 2016 he has been involved in developing blockchain-based Dapps and researching on the usability of Blockchains in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) domain.
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Florian Schüpfer
Florian Schüpfer is a Master student at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He did his Master thesis with the CSG in the blockchain area with the main focus on P2P trading applications.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bocek was the head of P2P and Distributed Systems at the Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich from 2013 to 2018. Since then he holds a professor’s position with the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil. Before that, Thomas worked as a software engineer and technical project manager in the financial sector. Thomas is mainly interested in communication systems and networks, especially focusing on P2P, distributed systems, and blockchains including Bitcoin and Ethereum. He is also involved in the blockchain start-up modum.io, which combines IoT sensor devices with blockchains.
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller received the Diplom-Informatiker (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science and the Dr. rer.-nat. (Ph. D.) degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a Full Professor of the Communication Systems Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich since 2004. He held previous research positions with the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K., the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany. He did coordinate various Swiss and European industrial and research projects, such as BC4CC, Foodchains, AAMAIS, DAMMO, SmoothIT, SmartenIT, SESERV, and Econ@Tel, besides participating in others, such as M3I, Akogrimo, EC-GIN, EMANICS, FLAMINGO, symbIoTe, and ACROSS. His main interests are published in well over 250 research papers and include systems with a fully decentralized control (blockchains, clouds, peer-to-peer), network and service management (economic management), Internet-of-Things (security of constrained devices, LoRa), and telecommunication economics (charging and accounting). He is also involved as a senior advisor in the blockchain start-up modum.io, which combines IoT sensor devices with blockchains.
Abstract
This work introduces the design and implementation of an Android-based Peer-to-peer Purchase and Rental Application termed PuRSCA, which leverages Smart Contracts (SC) and the Ethereum public blockchain (BC). As a Device-to-device (D2D) communication protocol, WiFi-Direct is chosen to enable the P2P data transmission between two parties. This work results in a cost-efficient, secure, SC-based, P2P, and Decentralized application (Dapp). Evaluations on performance of this Dapp is specified in terms of its D2D deployment, transaction costs, scalability, security, and privacy.
About the authors
Sina Rafati Niya is with the Communications Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich UZH, started his Ph. D. in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology engineering from Urmia University of Technology Iran, In 2015. Since 2016 he has been involved in developing blockchain-based Dapps and researching on the usability of Blockchains in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) domain.
Florian Schüpfer is a Master student at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He did his Master thesis with the CSG in the blockchain area with the main focus on P2P trading applications.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bocek was the head of P2P and Distributed Systems at the Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich from 2013 to 2018. Since then he holds a professor’s position with the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil. Before that, Thomas worked as a software engineer and technical project manager in the financial sector. Thomas is mainly interested in communication systems and networks, especially focusing on P2P, distributed systems, and blockchains including Bitcoin and Ethereum. He is also involved in the blockchain start-up modum.io, which combines IoT sensor devices with blockchains.
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller received the Diplom-Informatiker (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science and the Dr. rer.-nat. (Ph. D.) degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a Full Professor of the Communication Systems Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich since 2004. He held previous research positions with the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K., the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany. He did coordinate various Swiss and European industrial and research projects, such as BC4CC, Foodchains, AAMAIS, DAMMO, SmoothIT, SmartenIT, SESERV, and Econ@Tel, besides participating in others, such as M3I, Akogrimo, EC-GIN, EMANICS, FLAMINGO, symbIoTe, and ACROSS. His main interests are published in well over 250 research papers and include systems with a fully decentralized control (blockchains, clouds, peer-to-peer), network and service management (economic management), Internet-of-Things (security of constrained devices, LoRa), and telecommunication economics (charging and accounting). He is also involved as a senior advisor in the blockchain start-up modum.io, which combines IoT sensor devices with blockchains.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Application of blockchain technology
- Research Papers
- Message exchange on base of a blockchain-based layered architecture
- Mapping the sea of opportunities: Blockchain in supply chain and logistics
- OriginStamp: A blockchain-backed system for decentralized trusted timestamping
- On-chain vs. off-chain storage for supply- and blockchain integration
- Brokerless inter-domain virtual network embedding: A blockchain-based approach
- A Peer-to-peer Purchase and Rental Smart Contract-based Application (PuRSCA)
- Current Research Projects
- The Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC)
- ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig – A competence center for collaborative big data research
- Distinguished Dissertations
- Software-based microarchitectural attacks
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Application of blockchain technology
- Research Papers
- Message exchange on base of a blockchain-based layered architecture
- Mapping the sea of opportunities: Blockchain in supply chain and logistics
- OriginStamp: A blockchain-backed system for decentralized trusted timestamping
- On-chain vs. off-chain storage for supply- and blockchain integration
- Brokerless inter-domain virtual network embedding: A blockchain-based approach
- A Peer-to-peer Purchase and Rental Smart Contract-based Application (PuRSCA)
- Current Research Projects
- The Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC)
- ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig – A competence center for collaborative big data research
- Distinguished Dissertations
- Software-based microarchitectural attacks
