ServiceNet: A Service Network for Peer to Peer

ServiceNet: A Service Network for Peer to Peer

Ji Liu, Shiping Chen, Hang Zhao, Jiyuan Yang, Yu Shi, Ruiqiang Li, Dong Yuan
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/IJSSOE.20210701.oa1
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Abstract

Despite the enormous number of online docking services available, consumers sometimes struggle to discover the services they require from time to time. On the other hand, when finding matching or recommendation platforms from an academic or industry perspective, most of the related work they can find is centralized systems. Unfortunately, the centralized systems often have shortages, such as adv-driven, lack of trust, non-transparency, and unfairness. The authors propose a peer-to-peer (P2P) service network for service discovery and recommendation. ServiceNet is a blockchain-based service ecosystem that promises to provide an open, transparent, self-growing, and self-managing service environment. The article will provide the basic concept, the proto-architecture type's design, and the proto-initial type's implementation and performance assessment.
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2. Servicenet Architecture Design

We envision a simple motivation example in the future to better present our basic idea and design principles for ServiceNet:

Alice and Bob use their spare time to provide proofreading services in Sydney and London, respectively. They register their services with ServiceNet as a service provider. Alex and Tom are both self-employed plumbers in Sydney and London, and registered their services with ServiceNet as a plumber service provider.

[Use Case 1] Merry is a PhD student in Sydney. She has completed her PhD thesis, and she would like to have her thesis checked before submitting it. She sends a thesis proofreading service request to ServiceNet. Since proofreading service can be conducted remotely, both Alice and Bob receive the request, and reply with their quotations. Since Bo’s price is a little bit cheaper with a lot of favorable comments, Merry picks up Bob to do the proofreading for her thesis.

[Use Case 2] Chen’s shower starts leaking. He sends the request to ServiceNet. Since the plumber needs to come to Chen’s house to fix the shower, ServiceNet only forwards the request to Tom (and maybe a few other plumbers near Chen’s home). Through a similar bidding process, Tom secures the deal.

2.1 Design Principles

Based on the above visionary example, we derive our design principles as follows:

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    ServiceNet is a P2P network with no centralized servers and business entity, which control ServiceNet.

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    It is (almost) intelligent, because of no HR and operational cost.

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    It should be smart and fair enough to routine a service request to the trimmer and suitable service providers, who is likely the best to deliver the service.

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    It is able to grow and manage by itself like nature and human society.

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