Mitigating Security Threats of Bitcoin Network by Reducing Message Broadcasts During Transaction Dissemination

Khaled Tarmissi; Atef Shalan; Abdullah Al Shahrani; Rayan Alsulamy; Saud S. Alotaibi; Sarah Al-Shareef

doi:10.1109/CICN56167.2022.10008238

Mitigating Security Threats of Bitcoin Network by Reducing Message Broadcasts During Transaction Dissemination

Khaled Tarmissi, Atef Shalan, Abdullah Al Shahrani, Rayan Alsulamy, Saud S. Alotaibi, Sarah Al-Shareef

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Abstract

Propagation delay in blockchain networks is a major impairment of message transmission and validation in the bitcoin network. The transaction delay caused by message propagation across long network chains can cause significant threats to the bitcoin network integrity by allowing miners to find blocks during the message consensus process. Potential threats of slow transaction dissemination include double-spending, partitions, and eclipse attacks. In this paper, we propose a method for minimizing propagation delay by reducing non-compulsory message broadcasts during transaction dissemination in the underlying blockchain network. Our method will decrease the propagation delay in the bitcoin network and consequently mitigate the security threats based on message dissemination delay. Our results show improvement in the delay time with more effect on networks with a large number of nodes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	772-777
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665487719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CICN56167.2022.10008238
State	Published - 2022
Event	IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks - Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia Duration: Dec 4 2022 → Dec 6 2022 Conference number: 14 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=10008224

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Name	Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks
Abbreviated title	IEEE CICN
Country/Territory	Saudi Arabia
City	Al-Khobar
Period	12/4/22 → 12/6/22
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=10008224

Scopus Subject Areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Keywords

Bitcoin network
blockchain
consensus process
message dissemination
propagation delay

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Tarmissi, K., Shalan, A., Al Shahrani, A., Alsulamy, R., Alotaibi, S. S., & Al-Shareef, S. (2022). Mitigating Security Threats of Bitcoin Network by Reducing Message Broadcasts During Transaction Dissemination. In Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022 (pp. 772-777). (Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CICN56167.2022.10008238

Tarmissi, Khaled ; Shalan, Atef ; Al Shahrani, Abdullah et al. / Mitigating Security Threats of Bitcoin Network by Reducing Message Broadcasts During Transaction Dissemination. Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. pp. 772-777 (Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022).

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Tarmissi, K, Shalan, A, Al Shahrani, A, Alsulamy, R, Alotaibi, SS & Al-Shareef, S 2022, Mitigating Security Threats of Bitcoin Network by Reducing Message Broadcasts During Transaction Dissemination. in Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022. Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 772-777, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 12/4/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/CICN56167.2022.10008238

Mitigating Security Threats of Bitcoin Network by Reducing Message Broadcasts During Transaction Dissemination. / Tarmissi, Khaled; Shalan, Atef; Al Shahrani, Abdullah et al.
Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 772-777 (Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022).

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Tarmissi K, Shalan A, Al Shahrani A, Alsulamy R, Alotaibi SS, Al-Shareef S. Mitigating Security Threats of Bitcoin Network by Reducing Message Broadcasts During Transaction Dissemination. In Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. p. 772-777. (Proceedings - 2022 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022). doi: 10.1109/CICN56167.2022.10008238

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