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ARTICLE

A Broadcast Storm Detection and Treatment Method Based on Situational Awareness

Zhe Zhu¹, Mingjian Zhang², Yong Liu¹, Lan Ma¹, Xin Liu^1,*

1 School of Computer Science & School of Cyberspace Security, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China
2 Key Laboratory of Network Crime Investigation of Hunan Provincial Colleges, Hunan Police Academy, Changsha, China

* Corresponding Author: Xin Liu. Email:

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection 2021, 3(1), 47-54. https://doi.org/10.32604/jihpp.2021.016690

Received 08 January 2021; Accepted 27 March 2021; Issue published 21 April 2021

Abstract

At present, the research of blockchain is very popular, but the practical application of blockchain is very few. The main reason is that the concurrency of blockchain is not enough to support application scenarios. After that, applications such as Intervalue increase the concurrency of blockchain transactions. However, due to the problems of network bandwidth and algorithm performance, there is always a broadcast storm, which affects the normal use of nodes in the whole network. However, the emergence of broadcast storms needs to rely on the node itself, which may be very slow. Even if developers debug the corresponding code, they cannot conduct an effective test in the whole network. Broadcast storm problem mainly occurs in scenarios with large transaction volume, such as the financial industry. Due to its characteristics, the concurrency of transactions in the financial industry will increase at a certain time. If there is no effective algorithm to deal with it, the broadcast storm will be triggered and the whole network will be paralyzed. To solve the problem of the broadcast storm, this paper combines blockchain, peer-to-peer network, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, and proposes a broadcast storm detection and processing method based on situation awareness. The purpose is to cut off the further spread of broadcast storms from the node itself and maintain the normal operation of the whole network nodes.

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