Blockchain-Based Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Proof-of-Quality Consensus

Algorithm 1

Pseudocode for VSM algorithm.

	Data: : Maximum number of validators to be selected
	: Percentage of most reputable validators
	: Percentage of less reputable validators
	: Validator performance matrix (equation (10))
	Result: Create a pool of validators
(1)	Construct a 2-dimensional plot with the average performance of each validator vs. the number of their overall validations;
(2)	Identify the most performant clusters of validators;
(3)	Select % of out of the most performant cluster/s;
(4)	Select % of randomly out of the less performant cluster/s;
(5)	Create the list of validators ,