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We have entered an era where the importance of decentralized solutions has become more obvious. Blockchain technology and its derivatives are distributed ledger technologies that keep the registry of data between peers of a network. This…

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Graphs, consisting of vertices and edges, are vital for representing complex relationships in fields like social networks, finance, and blockchain. Visualizing these graphs helps analysts identify structural patterns, with readability…

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With the increase of web users and applications with real time requests, the ability to identify, track and trace elements of a product as it moves in the supply chain is deemed necessary, and for many industries is even mandated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Thomas Sermpinis , Christos Sermpinis

Interoperability and scalability are currently the bottlenecks preventing mass adoption of blockchain technology. Development of an interoperable and scalable network that promotes a truly decentralised, permissionless and secure blockchain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kevin Coutinho , Ponnie Clark , Ferdinand Azis , Norman Lip , Josh Hunt

Sharding has emerged as a critical technique for enhancing blockchain system scalability. However, existing sharding approaches face unique challenges when applied to Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based protocols that integrate expressive…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Junchao Chen , Alberto Sonnino , Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias , Mohammad Sadoghi

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many industrial applications, from targeted material delivery to precision farming. However, several of the heterogeneous characteristics that make them ideal for certain future applications --- robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Eduardo Castelló Ferrer

The applications of the blockchain technology are still being discov-ered. When a new potential disruptive technology emerges, there is a tendency to try to solve every problem with that technology. However, it is still necessary to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Bruno Tavares , Filipe Figueiredo Correia , André Restivo , João Pascoal Faria , Ademar Aguiar

Sharding is a prominent technique for scaling blockchains. By dividing the network into smaller components known as shards, a sharded blockchain can process transactions in parallel without introducing inconsistencies through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jianting Zhang , Wuhui Chen , Sifu Luo , Tiantian Gong , Zicong Hong , Aniket Kate

Sharding, i.e. splitting the miners or validators to form and run several subchains in parallel, is known as one of the main solutions to the scalability problem of blockchains. The drawback is that as the number of miners expanding each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Nastaran Abadi Khooshemehr , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Blockchain, which is a technology for distributedly managing ledger information over multiple nodes without a centralized system, has elicited increasing attention. Performing experiments on actual blockchains are difficult because a large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Yusuke Aoki , Kai Otsuki , Takeshi Kaneko , Ryohei Banno , Kazuyuki Shudo

Blockchain technologies are facing a scalability challenge, which must be overcome to guarantee a wider adoption of the technology. This scalability issue is due to the use of consensus algorithms to guarantee the total order of the chain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Margarita Capretto , Martín Ceresa , Antonio Fernández Anta , Antonio Russo , César Sánchez

Nowadays, blockchain is becoming a synonym for distributed ledger technology. However, blockchain is only one of the specializations in the field and is currently well-covered in existing literature, but mostly from a cryptographic point of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Federico Matteo Benčić , Ivana Podnar Žarko

The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource---one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, and opportunistic. This type of resource has been used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adriana Iamnitchi , Ian Foster

In this paper, we represent the problem of selecting miners within a blockchain-based system as a subset selection problem. We formulate the problem of minimising blockchain energy consumption as an optimisation problem with two conflicting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Akram Alofi , Mahmoud A. Bokhari , Robert Hendley , Rami Bahsoon

Most of today's online services (e.g., social networks, search engines, market places) are centralized, which is recognized as unsatisfactory by a majority of users for various reasons (e.g., centralized governance, censorship, loss of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kadir Korkmaz , Joachim Bruneau-Queyreix , Sonia Ben Mokthar , Laurent Réveillère

Most current blockchains require all full nodes to execute all tasks limits the throughput of existing blockchains, which are well documented and among the most significant hurdles for the widespread adoption of decentralized technology.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Alexander Hentschel , Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi , Ramtin Seraj , Dieter Shirley , Layne Lafrance

Scalability is a crucial requirement for modern large-scale systems, enabling elasticity and ensuring responsiveness under varying load. While cloud systems have achieved scalable architectures, blockchain systems remain constrained by the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Quentin Kniep , Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias , Alberto Sonnino , Igor Zablotchi , Nuda Zhang

In the past decade, blockchain has emerged as a promising solution for building secure distributed ledgers and has attracted significant attention. However, current blockchain systems suffer from limited throughput, poor scalability, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Tayyaba Noreen , Qiufen Xia , Muhammad Zeeshan Haider

In recent years, blockchain technology has been recognized as a transformative innovation in the tech world, and it has quickly become the core infrastructure of digital currencies such as Bitcoin and an important tool in various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mohsen Ghorbian , Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

Improving transaction throughput is one of the main challenges in decentralized payment systems. Attempts to improve transaction throughput in cryptocurrencies are usually a trade-off between throughput and security or introduce a central…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Rowel Gündlach , Jaap-Henk Hoepman , Remco van der Hofstad , Tommy Koens , Stijn Meijer