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We present a new blocking linearizable stack implementation which utilizes sharding and fetch&increment to achieve significantly better performance than all existing concurrent stacks. The proposed implementation is based on a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ajay Singh , Nikos Metaxakis , Panagiota Fatourou

The exponential growth of the blockchain size has become a major contributing factor that hinders the decentralisation of blockchain and its potential implementations in data-heavy applications. In this paper, we propose segment blockchain,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yibin Xu , Yangyu Huang

As the foundation of the Web3 trust system, blockchain technology faces increasing demands for scalability. Sharding emerges as a promising solution, but it struggles to handle highly concurrent cross-shard transactions (\textsf{CSTx}s),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lingxiao Yang , Xuewen Dong , Zhiguo Wan , Di Lu , Yushu Zhang , Yulong Shen

Traditionally, blockchain systems involve sharing transaction information across all blockchain network participants. Clearly, this introduces barriers to the adoption of the technology by the enterprise world, where preserving the privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Elli Androulaki , Angelo De Caro , Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui , Christian Gorenflo , Alessandro Sorniotti , Marko Vukolic

In today's blockchain system, designing a secure and high throughput blockchain on par with a centralized payment system is a difficult task. Sharding is one of the most worthwhile emerging technologies for improving the system throughput…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chenyu Huang , Zeyu Wang , Huangxun Chen , Qiwei Hu , Qian Zhang , Wei Wang , Xia Guan

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

The last decade has experienced a vast interest in Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies with a specific focus on the applications of this technology. However, slow confirmation times of transactions and unforeseeable high fees hamper their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Suat Mercan , Enes Erdin , Kemal Akkaya

This paper presents a blockchain-based approach for securing spectrum sharing in multi-beam satellite systems. Satellite spectrum is a scarce resource that requires highly efficient management schemes for optimized sharing by network users.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Feng Li , Kwok-Yan Lam , Min Jia , Jun Zhao , Xiuhua Li , Li Wang

Permissioned blockchains promise secure decentralized data management in business-to-business use-cases. In contrast to Bitcoin and similar public blockchains which rely on Proof-of-Work for consensus and are deployed on thousands of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Lucas Kuhring , Zsolt István , Alessandro Sorniotti , Marko Vukolić

Blockchains have block-size limits to ensure the entire cluster can keep up with the tip of the chain. These block-size limits are usually single-dimensional, but richer multidimensional constraints allow for greater throughput. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nir Lavee , Noam Nisan , Mallesh Pai , Max Resnick

There appears to be an insatiable desire for spawning new bespoke blockchains to harness the functionality provided by blockchain technologies, resulting in a constant stream of blockchain start-up companies entering the market with their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Sandra Johnson , Peter Robinson , John Brainard

The surging interest in blockchain technology has revitalized the search for effective Byzantine consensus schemes. In particular, the blockchain community has been looking for ways to effectively integrate traditional Byzantine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Jian Liu , Wenting Li , Ghassan O. Karame , N. Asokan

Our work focuses on the design of a scalable permissionless blockchain in the proof-of-stake setting. In particular, we use a distributed hash table as a building block to set up randomized shards, and then leverage the sharded architecture…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Antoine Durand , Emmanuelle Anceaume , Romaric Ludinard

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

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Margarita Capretto , Martín Ceresa , Antonio Fernández Anta , Antonio Russo , César Sánchez

Low throughput has been the biggest obstacle of large-scale blockchain applications. During the past few years, researchers have proposed various schemes to improve the systems' throughput. However, due to the inherent inefficiency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Ying-Hao Zhang , Xiao Fan Liu

With the development of decentralized consensus protocols, permissionless blockchains have been envisioned as a promising enabler for the general-purpose transaction-driven, autonomous systems. However, most of the prevalent blockchain…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Zhengwei Ni , Wenbo Wang , Dong In Kim , Ping Wang , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we study a new latency optimization problem for blockchain-based federated learning (BFL) in multi-server edge computing. In this system model, distributed mobile devices (MDs) communicate with a set of edge servers (ESs) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Dinh C. Nguyen , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , David J. Love , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Christopher G. Brinton

This study proposes a novel solution that provides secure interoperability for blockchains, which improves the overall scalability of the whole blockchain network. In our solution, a cross-chain task will build a one-time cross-blockchain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Keyang Liu , Yukio Ohsawa

A Unitychain is a novel blockchain-like structure that drastically improves transaction scalability and security while maintaining ongoing network performance, even if participating nodes are required to perform a new Distributed Key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Joshua D. Tobkin

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