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Blockchain is widely applied in logistics, finance, and agriculture. As single blockchain users grow, scalability becomes crucial. However, existing works lack a comprehensive summary of blockchain scalability. They focus on single chains…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Baochao Chen , Liyuan Ma , Hao Xu , Juncheng Ma , Dengcheng Hu , Xiulong Liu , Jie Wu , Jianrong Wang , Keqiu Li

Blockchain is an emerging technology that enables new forms of decentralized software architectures, where distributed components can reach agreements on shared system states without trusting a central integration point. Blockchain provides…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiwei Xu , Cesare Pautasso , Sin Kuang Lo , Liming Zhu , Qinghua Lu , Ingo Weber

Context: Blockchain-based software (BBS) exploits the concepts and technologies popularized by cryptocurrencies offering decentralized transaction ledgers with immutable content for security-critical and transaction critical systems. Recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Bakheet Aljedaani , Aakash Ahmad , Mahdi Fahmideh , Arif Ali Khan , Jun Shen

Blockchain has attracted much attention from both academia and industry since emerging in 2008. Due to the inconvenience of the deployment of large-scale blockchains, blockchain simulators are used to facilitate blockchain design and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xuyang Ma , Han Wu , Du Xu , Katinka Wolter

Blockchain, the backbone of Bitcoin, has recently gained a lot of attention. Blockchain functions as an immutable record that enables decentralized transactions. Blockchain-based applications are sprouting up in a variety of industries,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Aakash Garg , Ankit Tyagi , Anant Patel , Divyansh Raj

Blockchain technology is an interlinked systematic chain of blocks that contains transaction history and other user data. It works under the principle of decentralized distributed digital ledger. This technology enables cryptographically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-25 AKM Bahalul Haque , Mahbubur Rahman

Blockchain architectures promise disruptive innovation but factually they pose many architectural restrictions to classical service-based applications and show considerable design, implementation, and operations overhead. Furthermore, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Giovanni Quattrocchi , Damian Andrew Tamburri , WIllem-Jan Van Den Heuvel

Cryptocurrencies and their foundation technology, the Blockchain, are reshaping finance and economics, allowing a decentralized approach enabling trusted applications with no trusted counterpart. More recently, the Blockchain and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Michele Marchesi , Lodovica Marchesi , Roberto Tonelli

In most High Performance Computing (HPC) projects nowadays, there is a lot of data obtained from different sources, depending on the project's objectives. Some of that data is very huge in terms of size, so copying such data sometimes is an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Gian Sebastian Mier Bello , Alexander Martinez Mendez , Carlos J. Barrios H. , Robinson Rivas , Luis A. Núñez

Trust between entities in any scenario without a trusted third party is very difficult, and trust is exactly what blockchain aims to bring into the digital world with its basic features. Many applications are moving to blockchain adoption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Stanly Wilson , Kwabena Adu-Duodu , Yinhao Li , Ellis Solaiman , Omer Rana , Rajiv Ranjan

Modern blockchain systems are a fresh look at the paradigm of distributed computing, applied under assumptions of large-scale public networks. They can be used to store and share information without a trusted central party. There has been…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sara Cohen , Aviv Zohar

Thanks to the advances in machine learning, data-driven analysis tools have become valuable solutions for various applications. However, there still remain essential challenges to develop effective data-driven methods because of the need to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Gihan J. Mendis , Yifu Wu , Jin Wei , Moein Sabounchi , Rigoberto Roche'

Blockchain technology has rapidly evolved from an enabling technology for cryptocurrencies to a potential solution to a wider range of problems found in data-centric and distributed systems. Interest in this area has encouraged many recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Amir Hussain Zolfaghari , Herbert Daly , Mahdi Nasiri , Roxana Sharifian

Supply chain applications operate in a multi-stakeholder setting, demanding trust, provenance, and transparency. Blockchain technology provides mechanisms to establish a decentralized infrastructure involving multiple stakeholders. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Gowri Sankar Ramachandran , Sidra Malik , Shantanu Pal , Ali Dorri , Volkan Dedeoglu , Salil Kanhere , Raja Jurdak

Bitcoin's success has led to significant interest in its underlying components, particularly Blockchain technology. Over 10 years after Bitcoin's initial release, the community still suffers from a lack of clarity regarding what properties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Scott Ruoti , Ben Kaiser , Arkady Yerukhimovich , Jeremy Clark , Robert Cunningham

The blockchain technology has potential applications in various areas such as smart-contracts, Internet of Things (IoT), land registry, supply chain management, storing medical data, and identity management. Although the Github currently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Amiangshu Bosu , Anindya Iqbal , Rifat Shahriyar , Partha Chakroborty

Many scientific and practical areas have shown increasing interest in reaping the benefits of blockchain technology to empower software systems. However, the unique characteristics and requirements associated with Blockchain Based Software…

Blockchain is challenging the status quo of the central trust infrastructure currently prevalent in the Internet towards a design principle that is underscored by decentralization, transparency, and trusted auditability. In ideal terms,…

Blockchain technologies are gaining massive momentum in the last few years. Blockchains are distributed ledgers that enable parties who do not fully trust each other to maintain a set of global states. The parties agree on the existence,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Rui Liu , Meihui Zhang , Gang Chen , Beng Chin Ooi , Ji Wang

With the advent of blockchain technology, multiple research avenues and platforms for dialogue have opened up. However technology transfer to the pubic has not been implemented, such that regular public can access and make use of secure and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Projjal Gupta