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In recent years, blockchain has grown in popularity due to its singular attributes, enabling the development of new innovative decentralized applications. But when companies consider leveraging blockchain for their applications, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Nicolas Six

Recent developments in blockchain technology have inspired innovative new designs in resilient distributed and database systems. At their core, these blockchain applications typically use Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols to…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Suyash Gupta , Sajjad Rahnama , Jelle Hellings , Mohammad Sadoghi

Blockchain scalability can be complicated and costly. As enterprises begin to adopt blockchain technology to solve business problems, there are valid concerns if blockchain applications can support the transactional demands of production…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Grant Chung , Luc Desrosiers , Manav Gupta , Andrew Sutton , Kaushik Venkatadri , Ontak Wong , Goran Zugic

Blockchain-based IoT systems can manage IoT devices and achieve a high level of data integrity, security, and provenance. However, incorporating the existing consensus protocols in many IoT systems limits scalability and leads to high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hao Guo , Wanxin Li , Mark Nejad

Blockchain is a type of decentralized distributed database. Unlike traditional relational database management systems, it does not require management or maintenance by a third party. All data management and update processes are open and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiaqi Huang , Yuanzheng Niu , Xiaoqi Li , Zongwei Li

Cooperation is fundamental for human prosperity. Blockchain, as a trust machine, is a cooperative institution in cyberspace that supports cooperation through distributed trust with consensus protocols. While studies in computer science…

General Economics · Economics 2023-01-23 Luyao Zhang , Xinyu Tian

The scalability of blockchain technology remains a pivotal challenge, impeding its widespread adoption across various sectors. This study introduces an innovative approach to address this challenge by proposing the adaptive restructuring of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Dzianis Kanonik , Alex Rusnak , Anton Yezhov , Oleksandr Domin

Blockchain has many benefits including decentralization, availability, persistency, consistency, anonymity, auditability and accountability, and it also covers a wide spectrum of applications ranging from cryptocurrency, financial services,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Quan-Lin Li , Jing-Yu Ma , Yan-Xia Chang

To address the large amount of energy wasted by blockchains, we propose a decentralized consensus protocol for blockchains in which the computation can be used to search for good approximate solutions to any optimization problem. Our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Naoki Shibata

Since the inception of Bitcoin, the distributed systems community has shown interest in the design of efficient blockchain systems. However, initial blockchain applications (like Bitcoin) attain very low throughput, which has promoted the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Suyash Gupta , Sajjad Rahnama , Mohammad Sadoghi

This paper addresses the lack of a general methodology for the controller synthesis of an optical instrument on-board a stratospheric balloon-borne platform, such as a telescope or siderostat, to meet pointing requirements that are becoming…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Ervan Kassarian , Francesco Sanfedino , Daniel Alazard , Johan Montel , Charles-Antoine Chevrier

Supply chain traceability refers to product tracking from the source to customers, demanding transparency, authenticity, and high efficiency. In recent years, blockchain has been widely adopted in supply chain traceability to provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hanqing Wu , Shan Jiang , Jiannong Cao

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that has applications in many domains such as cryptocurrency, smart contracts, supply chain management, and many others. Distributed consensus is a fundamental component of blockchain systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Siamak Abdi , Giuseppe Di Fatta , Atta Badii , Giancarlo Fortino

Blockchain has come a long way: a system that was initially proposed specifically for cryptocurrencies is now being adapted and adopted as a general-purpose transactional system. As blockchain evolves into another data management system,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Pingcheng Ruan , Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Dumitrel Loghin , Meihui Zhang , Gang Chen , Qian Lin , Beng Chin Ooi

Blockchain uses the idea of storing transaction data in the form of a distributed ledger wherein each node in the network stores a current copy of the sequence of transactions in the form of a hash chain. This requirement of storing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ravi Kiran Raman , Lav R. Varshney

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have significant potential for agile communication and relief coordination in post-disaster scenarios, particularly when ground infrastructure is compromised. However, efficiently coordinating and securing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Sana Hafeez , Runze Cheng , Lina Mohjazi , Yao Sun , Muhammad Ali Imran

Blockchain technology offers decentralization and security but struggles with scalability, particularly in enterprise settings where efficiency and controlled access are paramount. Sharding is a promising solution for private blockchains,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 M. Z. Haider , M. Dias de Assuncao , Kaiwen Zhang

Recently, the blockchain technique was put in the spotlight as it introduced a systematic approach for multiple parties to reach consensus without needing trust. However, the application of this technique in practice is severely restricted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Zhijie Ren , Kelong Cong , Johan Pouwelse , Zekeriya Erkin

In this paper, we propose two models for scaling the transaction throughput in Proof-of-Work (PoW) based blockchain networks. In the first approach, a mathematical model has derived for optimal transaction throughput for PoW based longest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-21 B Swaroopa Reddy , G V V Sharma

Modern blockchains need fast, reliable propagation to balance security and throughput. Virtual-coordinate methods speed dissemination but rely on slow iterative updates, leaving nodes out of sync. We present BlockSDN-VC, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenyang Jia , Jingjing Wang , Kai Lei