Research Article

A Reputation-Based Approach Using Consortium Blockchain for Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing

Table 7

The description of appendentries RPC communication.

ParameterDescription
TermThe current term of leader node.
LeaderIDThe id of leader node.
PrevIndexThe index of consensus proposal immediately preceding new ones.
Entries[ ]Proposal entries to store in each follower node (empty for heartbeat request).
LeaderCommitThe commitIndex of leader node.

ReturnDescription
TermThe current term of leader node.
SuccessSet to true when verification of proposal that from leader is passed.