TY - JOUR
T1 - Janus: Toward Preventing Counterfeits in Supply Chains Utilizing a Multi-Quorum Blockchain
AU - Crossland, Vika
AU - Dellwo, Connor
AU - Bashar, Golam
AU - Dagher, Gaby G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - The modern pharmaceutical supply chain lacks transparency and traceability, resulting in alarming rates of counterfeit products entering the market. These illegitimate products cause harm to end users and wreak havoc on the supply chain itself, costing billions of dollars in profit loss. In this paper, in response to the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), we introduce Janus, a novel pharmaceutical track-and-trace system that utilizes blockchain and cloning-resistant hologram tags to prevent counterfeits from entering the pharmaceutical supply chain. We design a multi-quorum consensus protocol that achieves load balancing across the network. We perform a security analysis to show robustness against various threats and attacks. The implementation of Janus proves that the system is fair, scalable, and resilient.
AB - The modern pharmaceutical supply chain lacks transparency and traceability, resulting in alarming rates of counterfeit products entering the market. These illegitimate products cause harm to end users and wreak havoc on the supply chain itself, costing billions of dollars in profit loss. In this paper, in response to the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), we introduce Janus, a novel pharmaceutical track-and-trace system that utilizes blockchain and cloning-resistant hologram tags to prevent counterfeits from entering the pharmaceutical supply chain. We design a multi-quorum consensus protocol that achieves load balancing across the network. We perform a security analysis to show robustness against various threats and attacks. The implementation of Janus proves that the system is fair, scalable, and resilient.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Consensus protocol
KW - Pharmaceutical supply chain
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85180269660&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cs_facpubs/389
U2 - 10.1016/j.bcra.2023.100157
DO - 10.1016/j.bcra.2023.100157
M3 - Article
SN - 2096-7209
VL - 4
JO - Blockchain: Research and Applications
JF - Blockchain: Research and Applications
IS - 4
M1 - 100157
ER -