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March 11, 2025
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Peer-to-Peer System Design Trade-Offs: A Framework Exploring the Balance between Blockchain and IPFS

Publicated to: Applied Sciences-Basel. 11 (21): 10012- - 2021-11-01 11(21), DOI: 10.3390/app112110012

Authors:

Tenorio-Fornes, Ambar; Hassan, Samer; Pavon, Juan
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Affiliations

Harvard Univ, Berkman Klein Ctr Internet & Soc, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, Inst Knowledge Technol, GRASIA, Decentralized Sci,Decentralized Acad SL, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

The current state of the web, which is dominated by centralized cloud services, raises several concerns regarding different aspects such as governance, privacy, surveillance, and security. A way to address these issues is to decentralize the platforms by adopting new distributed technologies, such as IPFS and Blockchain, which follow a full peer-to-peer model. This work proposes a set of guidelines to design decentralized systems, taking the different trade-offs these technologies face with regard to their consistency requirements into consideration. These guidelines are then illustrated with the design of a decentralized questions and answers system. This system serves to illustrate a framework to create decentralized services and applications that uses IPFS and Blockchain technologies and incorporates the discussion and guidelines of the paper, providing solutions for data access, data provenance, and data discovery. Thus, this work proposes a framework to assist in the design of new decentralized systems, proposing a set of guidelines to choose the appropriate technologies depending on the relevant requirements; e.g., considering if Blockchain technology may be required or IPFS might be sufficient.
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Keywords

BlockchainDecentralizationDistributed systemsFederatioIpfsMulti-agent systemMulti-agent systemsP2p systemsWeb

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Applied Sciences-Basel due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 39/92, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Multidisciplinary. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Engineering (Miscellaneous).

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-04:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 7
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-04:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 42.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 42 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 6 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: United States of America.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (TENORIO FORNÉS, ÁMBAR) .

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Awards linked to the item

This research was funded by the project P2P Models (https://p2pmodels.eu, accessed on 25 October 2021) fundedby the European Research Council ERC-2017-STG (grant no.: 759207), Decentralized Science (https://decentralized.science, accessed on 25 October 2021) funded by the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program within the framework of the LEDGER Project (grant agreement No82526) and Chain Community, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (grant RTI2018-096820-A-100).
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