Blockchain-based real-time cheat prevention and robustness for multi-player online games

Kalra, Sukrit; Sanghi, Rishabh; Dhawan, Mohan

doi:10.1145/3281411.3281438

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“…In addition, blockchain can be used to build different reward mechanisms for interactions, security mechanisms for protecting the ownership of virtual goods on the gaming platforms to stop any illegal transactions, hacking, and thieving of the goods, and as fast payment methods between players and game providers [63]. Furthermore, the peer-to-peer structure of blockchain can be utilized to offer real-time cheat prevention and robustness for multi-player online games [64]. Several companies are developing a blockchain enabled gaming platform named the Aura Network [65].…”

Section: H Entertainment Industrymentioning

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Blockchain in Industries: A Survey

2019

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Blockchain technologies have recently come to the forefront of the research and industrial communities as they bring potential benefits for many industries. This is due to their practical capabilities in solving many issues currently inhibiting further advances in various industrial domains. Securely recording and sharing transactional data, establishing automated and efficient supply chain processes, and enhancing transparency across the whole value chain are some examples of these issues. Blockchain offers an effective way to tackle these issues using distributed, shared, secure, and permissioned transactional ledgers. The employment of blockchain technologies and the possibility of applying them in different situations enables many industrial applications through increased efficiency and security; enhanced traceability and transparency; and reduced costs. In this paper, different industrial application domains where the use of blockchain technologies has been proposed are reviewed. This paper explores the opportunities, benefits, and challenges of incorporating blockchain in different industrial applications. Furthermore, the paper attempts to identify the requirements that support the implementation of blockchain for different industrial applications. The review reveals that several opportunities are available for utilizing blockchain in various industrial sectors; however, there are still some challenges to be addressed to achieve better utilization of this technology.

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Section: H Entertainment Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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2019

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“…• Gaming: The scalability of blockchain on mobile plat-forms can benefit the gaming sector. It enables decentralized, transparent, and fraud-resistant gaming economies and facilitates the production and exchange of in-game assets [124].…”

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Mobile Smart Contracts: Exploring Scalability Challenges and Consensus Mechanisms

Deval,

Dwivedi,

Dixit

et al. 2024

IEEE Access

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Mobile smart contracts (MSCs) are essential to facilitate quick, safe, and decentralized transactions on mobile blockchain networks. Scalable blockchain solutions facilitate the establishment of a mobile blockchain ecosystem characterized by enhanced resilience and adaptability. This encourages an increase in the number of users and, thus, spreads the adoption of blockchain technology in the mobile domain. With the inception of blockchain technology, a wide range of applications use smart contracts due to their high customizability. However, problems with scalability and resource-intensive consensus procedures prevent their general use. Therefore, by conducting a systematic survey using Kitchenham's guidelines of available scalable blockchains and consensus methods, this work seeks to identify and analyze these constraints. Out of a preliminary pool of 2,073 publications, our study, which consists of 25 selected studies, identifies 12 consensus mechanisms and 13 scalable blockchain systems. Our investigation shows that, despite the wide range of techniques, no existing blockchain solution provides the scalability and lightweight operating requirements to implement smart contracts on mobile devices. This realization draws attention to a significant gap in academic and industry-driven blockchain research that may have implications for the creation of MSCs. Our findings encourage academics to explore scalable and energy-efficient blockchain technology, targeting the creation of more approachable smart contracts designed with mobile devices in mind.INDEX TERMS Blockchain, smart contract, scalability, consensus mechanism, proof-of-stake, proof-of-Work I. INTRODUCTIONT HE aim of this study is real-world impacts on Web3 adoption by mobile device users, where Web3 mobile adoption is critical to its success. Recently, Web3 has gained tremendous attention, and following major analysts such as Gartner [1] and Harvard Business Review [2], [3], [4], it will stay with us in the future. The Web3 vision takes blockchain to the next level by making disintermediation ubiquitous -establishing disintermediation not only for basic payments but also for a wide range of financial services, digital identities, data, and business models [5], [6]. As such, Web3 consolidates and integrates the fragmented landscape of specific blockchain visions expressed in the many initial coin offerings (ICO) that we have seen over the past decade. According to Jin and Parrot, ''Web3 is our chance to make a better Internet'' [3] by making Web3 ''owned and operated by its users'' [3]. However, a critical success factor for Web3 to take off is its acceptance by users of mobile devices. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), in 2022, ''mobile continues to dominate as the platform of choice for online access'' [7] and "Internet use is becoming as ubiquitous as mobile phones" [7].

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“…Min et al [ 26 ] survey and categorize existing blockchain-based games according to the properties and features of the blockchain they use, while Min and Cai explore architectures used in blockchain-based games and the security issues that arise [ 27 ], and Cai and Wu [ 28 ] have proposed a gaming avatar framework that provides interoperability across multiple games and blockchains. On the other hand, Kalra et al [ 29 ] have used blockchain technology, not for the game itself, but for implementing auxiliary functionalities for the games. In particular, they have designed an application that addresses two seemingly different problems in online gaming, cheating and DDoS attacks to game servers.…”

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Beacons and Blockchains in the Mobile Gaming Ecosystem: A Feasibility Analysis

Pittaras

Fotiou

Siris

et al. 2021

Sensors

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We explore the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), such as blockchains, in mobile gaming, focusing on ecosystem expansion and diversification, customer attraction and retention, exploitation of context sensitive and personalized advertisements, and improved monetization of in-game assets. We evaluate the cost and transaction delay of DLTs in a location-based mobile game ecosystem using two types of blockchains (permissioned and permissionless or public), based on defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Our evaluation shows the advantages of using both types of blockchains as well as interledger technologies that combine them. Permissioned blockchains enable high performance, e.g., in terms of throughput and delay, and low cost, while permissionless (public) blockchains, through their transparency, immutability, and openness, support trust and facilitate interactions among unrelated parties. Finally, we show that the combination of IoT devices and DLTs in mobile gaming offers new business opportunities and enables innovative business models for both traditional mobile gaming companies and other participants in the ecosystem, e.g., game players, cafes, malls, and similar establishments, advertising companies, and independent programmers.

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Blockchain-based real-time cheat prevention and robustness for multi-player online games

Cited by 18 publications

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Blockchain in Industries: A Survey

Blockchain in Industries: A Survey

Mobile Smart Contracts: Exploring Scalability Challenges and Consensus Mechanisms

Beacons and Blockchains in the Mobile Gaming Ecosystem: A Feasibility Analysis

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