Blockchain and tcp: a comparative approach
International Journal of Development Research
Blockchain and tcp: a comparative approach
Received 10th September, 2021; Received in revised form 28th October, 2021; Accepted 11th November, 2021; Published online 25th December, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Ernande F. Melo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In this article we will show that the characteristics and functionalities of a blockchain data structure, although developed in the application layer, are similar to those of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in the Transport Layer. The TCP protocol is characterised by a point-to-point connection, reliable delivery, through validation mechanisms with confirmation and sequencing and retransmission. These characteristics are present in a blockchain, either in the form of software components or software and hardware arrangements. The proposed approach allows us to identify possibilities of replacing, in classic data applications, the TCPl protocol, which is reliable and secure, but slow, with the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), less reliable but fast, leaving reliability and security to the blockchains, in the application layer.
