Table 3.

Resource impact on the node in terms of CPU and memory usage, and transmitted and received bit per hour before (Base Line) and while running the proposed architecture with IPFS and Swarm.

Metric	Base Line	Swarm		IPFS
	Avg	Avg	$\mathit{\delta }$	Avg	$\mathit{\delta }$
CPU Usage (%)	0.20	10.62	10.42%	6.04	5.84%
Memory Usage (%)	3.00	10.04	7.04%	18.01	15.01%
Network Tx (b/h)	82,138.31	11,202,555.10	11,120,416.79%	31,273,935.23	31,191,796.92%
Network Rx (b/h)	619,528.38	13,026,146.52	12,406,618.15%	38,839,748.92	38,220,220.54%