Authenticated data visualization for hybrid blockchain-based digital product passports

IF 4.5 3区计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Computer Communications Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108110

Domenico Tortola , Claudio Felicioli , Andrea Canciani , Fabio Severino

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Abstract

The Digital Product Passport (DPP), introduced by the European Green Deal in 2022, is a key innovation designed to improve product sustainability and circularity by enabling secure and transparent communication among stakeholders. Despite its potential, existing blockchain-based implementations of the DPP face significant limitations, such as scalability challenges and usability issues, which hinder widespread adoption. To address these shortcomings, this paper proposes a hybrid blockchain-based implementation of the DPP that enhances data transparency, integrity, and accessibility while minimizing common drawbacks. The proposed solution utilizes a hybrid blockchain architecture, where data is collected and managed within a private blockchain network and notarized on a public blockchain. Additionally, the central problem of authenticated blockchain data visualization is addressed by proposing a new solution that not only ensures the provenance, integrity, and history consistency of DPP data, but also preserves these properties throughout data processing and visualization. Our experiments demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach, achieving low time consumption and storage overhead. To further promote transparency and collaboration, a selection of the implementation has been made available as open-source projects. We show that hybrid blockchains offer a promising path for realizing the full potential of the Digital Product Passport.

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基于混合区块链的数字产品护照的身份验证数据可视化

数字产品护照（DPP）由欧洲绿色协议于2022年推出，是一项关键创新，旨在通过实现利益相关者之间安全透明的沟通，提高产品的可持续性和循环性。尽管具有潜力，但现有的基于区块链的DPP实现面临着重大限制，例如可扩展性挑战和可用性问题，这些都阻碍了DPP的广泛采用。为了解决这些缺点，本文提出了一种基于混合区块链的DPP实现，增强了数据的透明度、完整性和可访问性，同时最大限度地减少了常见的缺点。提出的解决方案利用混合区块链架构，其中数据在私有区块链网络中收集和管理，并在公共区块链上进行公证。此外，通过提出一种新的解决方案来解决经过身份验证的区块链数据可视化的中心问题，该解决方案不仅确保DPP数据的来源、完整性和历史一致性，而且在整个数据处理和可视化过程中保持这些属性。我们的实验证明了我们的方法的有效性，实现了低时间消耗和存储开销。为了进一步促进透明度和协作，已经将一些实现作为开源项目提供。我们表明，混合区块链为实现数字产品护照的全部潜力提供了一条有希望的途径。

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Computer Communications 工程技术-电信学

CiteScore

14.10

自引率

5.00%

发文量

397

审稿时长

66 days

期刊介绍： Computer and Communications networks are key infrastructures of the information society with high socio-economic value as they contribute to the correct operations of many critical services (from healthcare to finance and transportation). Internet is the core of today''s computer-communication infrastructures. This has transformed the Internet, from a robust network for data transfer between computers, to a global, content-rich, communication and information system where contents are increasingly generated by the users, and distributed according to human social relations. Next-generation network technologies, architectures and protocols are therefore required to overcome the limitations of the legacy Internet and add new capabilities and services. The future Internet should be ubiquitous, secure, resilient, and closer to human communication paradigms. Computer Communications is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes high-quality scientific articles (both theory and practice) and survey papers covering all aspects of future computer communication networks (on all layers, except the physical layer), with a special attention to the evolution of the Internet architecture, protocols, services, and applications.