Research Article

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

Table 9

Symbol definition about the reputation model.

SymbolDescription

ActionThe set of operations performed by the leader, follower, and supervisor node in the reputation model computing phase. Action = {generateProposal, broadcast, sendRPC, receive, success, fail, timeout}, where “sendRPC” indicates to communicate with the supervisor node by ReputationCompute RPC, “success,” “fail” is the value of return in ReputationCompute RPC.
TraceA sequence on the set action, such as {receive⟶generateProposal⟶sendRPC⟶success}.
BehaviorThe behavior of node 1 can be denoted as <1, tr>, the identification of the node is 1, and tr is a trace.