International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering
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| TITLE | BP-VOT: Blockchain-Based E-Voting Using Smart Contracts, Differential Privacy, and Self- Sovereign Identities |
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| ABSTRACT | Election is the key process typically utilized for maintaining democracy in a given society. Recent technological advancements, such as Blockchain (BC), have been already deployed in previous works to realize non- conventional e- Voting systems. The main goal for such proposals is to provide the necessary level of security and reliability, while maintaining transparency, trust, and remote elections. However, the distributed and publicity nature of BC brought new challenges related to privacy and per- formance trade-off. This paper aims to address these issues by integrating smart contracts for reliability and transparency, Differential Privacy for enhancing vote anonymity, and Self-Sovereign Identities to unlock the po- tential of the Web3 framework for verifiable credentials and digital iden- tities. Specifically, a novel (k, ϵ)- differential privacy mechanism is de- veloped, where a randomly selected candidate is pivoted from which re- trievable votes are transferred to other candidates. Final election results are then statistically approximated. We evaluate the proposed methods for different arrival rates (10–80 TX/s), different total numbers of cast votes (10k–50k votes), and different numbers of elected candidates (2– 8 candidates). To demonstrate the applicability of our proposal in real- life scenarios, we deploy our SC on a cloud-based permissioned BC net- work using Hyperledger Besu, with nodes set in Google’s EU and USA data centers. |
| AUTHOR | BUDDHA BHUSHAN PAWAR, CHANDRASHEKHAR MAHAJAN, SHADAB KHAN, SUMEDH DAMODAR, PROF. ANKUSH NARKHEDE UG Student, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Padm. Dr. V. B. Kolte College of Engineering, Malkapur Maharashtra, India Professor Guide, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Padm. Dr. V. B. Kolte College of Engineering, Malkapur, Maharashtra, India |
| VOLUME | 181 |
| DOI | DOI: 10.15680/IJIRCCE.2026.1402044 |
| pdf/44_BP-VOT Blockchain-Based E-Voting Using Smart Contracts, Differential Privacy, and Self- Sovereign Identities.pdf | |
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