ECLB: Edge-Computing-Based Lightweight Blockchain Framework for Mobile Systems

Table 3

Some major notations used in our ECLB protocol.

Notations	Description
	The -th edge node
	The public and private key pair of
	The number of edge nodes
	The candidate transaction block generated at time
	A signing algorithm
	A signature verification algorithm corresponding to
	’s signature on , i.e.,
	The unspent transaction output (UTXO) set
	The verification result of the candidate block
	An access policy tree
	A public key in the regulator layer
	A master key of the trusted authority in the regulator layer
	A symmetric key
	The ciphertext of
	A symmetric encryption algorithm
	A symmetric decryption algorithm
	The -th transaction record
	The ciphertext of the transaction record