COMSATS Network Research Group (CNRG)

Project Description

A land administration system is a framework established to govern the management of land resources in a particular region or country. This system comprises policies, laws, procedures, and techniques that are utilized to manage land, including land registration, land tenure, and land valuation. Manual maintenance of land records is perennially marred with multiple challenges; double-spending, single point of failure, delays, multiple visits, intentional and unintentional errors by an authorized person, bribes, and lack of transparency. Recently, Blockchain has been conceived as a technology having the potential to implement and enforce critical security requirements in complex cyber-physical systems. With Blockchain, the common issues in revenue systems, such as forgery, falsification, misrepresentation, and human-induced anomalies in records at various stages, can be prevented. However, current LAS based on Blockchain technology do not offer a holistic architecture to address all the shortcomings of centralized LAS. Furthermore, existing state-of-the-art solutions do not account for all the essential features of Blockchain, such as transparency, double-spending prevention, auditability, immutability, and user participation. This seed-grant proposes to address the research issue doublespending in Blockchain based LAS. Moreover, we aim to build a prototype application that demonstrates the immutability and auditability of land records to overcome the challenges of traditional systems. Our proposal is to utilize a decentralized and Blockchain-based system to manage land ownership and data transfer. This innovative technique allows for the management of property ownership aspects, including buying, leasing, mortgage situations, land inheritance, etc., in a ledger system that is publicly verifiable and immutable. The proposed system boasts features such as immutability, ownership and accountability, auditability, user involvement, transparency and efficiency, and prevention of multispending.

Project Funding

Sr. No.Funding BodyFunds
1 UTP Malaysia 1475000 Rs

Members

  • Dr. Kashif Bilal