Sharing pandemic vaccination certificates through blockchain: Case study and performance evaluation

Hern'andez-Ramos, Jos'e Luis; Karopoulos, Georgios; Geneiatakis, Dimitris; Martin, Tania; Kambourakis, Georgios; Fovino, Igor Nai

This work proposes a scalable, blockchain-based platform for the secure sharing of COVID-19 or other disease vaccination certificates. As an indicative use case, we simulate a large-scale deployment by considering the countries of the European Union. The proposed platform is evaluated through extensive simulations in terms of computing resource usage, network response time and bandwidth. Based on the results, the proposed scheme shows satisfactory performance across all major evaluation criteria, suggesting that it can set the pace for real implementations. Vis-\`a-vis the related work, the proposed platform is novel, especially through the prism of a large-scale, full-fledged implementation and its assessment.