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In the paper, we present designs for multiple blockchain consensus primitives and a novel blockchain system, all based on the use of trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as Intel SGX-enabled CPUs. First, we show how using TEEs for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Mitar Milutinovic , Warren He , Howard Wu , Maxinder Kanwal

Current blockchain consensus protocols -- notably, Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS) -- deliver global agreement but exhibit structural constraints. PoW anchors security in heavy computation, inflating energy use and imposing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Kyle Habib , Vladislav Kapitsyn , Giovanni Mazzeo , Faisal Mehrban

Modern cryptocurrency systems, such as Ethereum, permit complex financial transactions through scripts called smart contracts. These smart contracts are executed many, many times, always without real concurrency. First, all smart contracts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Thomas Dickerson , Paul Gazzillo , Maurice Herlihy , Eric Koskinen

Performance and scalability are major concerns for blockchains: permissionless systems are typically limited by slow proof of X consensus algorithms and sequential post-order transaction execution on every node of the network. By…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Christian Gorenflo , Lukasz Golab , Srinivasan Keshav

Blockchain performance has historically faced challenges posed by the throughput limitations of consensus algorithms. Recent breakthroughs in research have successfully alleviated these constraints by introducing a modular architecture that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ray Neiheiser , Arman Babaei , Giannis Alexopoulos , Marios Kogias , Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias

As the number of decentralized applications and users on Ethereum grows, the ability of the blockchain to efficiently handle a growing number of transactions becomes increasingly strained. Ethereums current execution model relies heavily on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Souradeep Das , Konpat Preechakul , Jonas Bäumer , Riddhi Patel , Jefferson Jinchuan Li

In this paper we present the initial design of Minerva consensus protocol for Truechain and other technical details. Currently, it is widely believed in the blockchain community that a public chain cannot simultaneously achieve high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Eric Zhang , Hendrik C , Yang Liu , Archit Sharma , Jasper L

Entity alignment (EA) aims to find equivalent entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs). State-of-the-art EA approaches generally use Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to encode entities. However, most of them train the models and evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Junyang Wu , Tianyi Li , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Ziheng Wei

Blockchain protocols are inherently limited in transaction throughput and latency. Recent efforts to address performance and scale blockchains have focused on off-chain payment channels. While such channels can achieve low latency and high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Joshua Lind , Ittay Eyal , Peter Pietzuch , Emin Gün Sirer

This paper presents Conflux, a fast, scalable and decentralized blockchain system that optimistically process concurrent blocks without discarding any as forks. The Conflux consensus protocol represents relationships between blocks as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Chenxing Li , Peilun Li , Dong Zhou , Wei Xu , Fan Long , Andrew Yao

Contemporary blockchain such as Bitcoin and Ethereum execute transactions serially by miners and validators and determine the Proof-of-Work (PoW). Such serial execution is unable to exploit modern multi-core resources efficiently, hence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Shrey Baheti , Parwat Singh Anjana , Sathya Peri , Yogesh Simmhan

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

The performance of existing permissionless smart contract platforms such as Ethereum is limited by the consensus layer. Prism is a new proof-of-work consensus protocol that provably achieves throughput and latency up to physical limits…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Gerui Wang , Shuo Wang , Vivek Bagaria , David Tse , Pramod Viswanath

We present Saguaro, a permissioned blockchain system designed specifically for edge computing networks. Saguaro leverages the hierarchical structure of edge computing networks to reduce the overhead of wide-area communication by presenting…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Mohammad Javad Amiri , Ziliang Lai , Liana Patel , Boon Thau Loo , Eric Lo , Wenchao Zhou

Modern web services crucially rely on high-performance distributed databases, where concurrent transactions are isolated from each other using concurrency control protocols. Relaxed isolation levels, which permit more complex concurrent…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shabnam Ghasemirad , Christoph Sprenger , Si Liu , Luca Multazzu , David Basin

Parallel execution of smart contract transactions in large multicore architectures is critical for higher efficiency and improved throughput. The main bottleneck for maximizing the throughput of a node through parallel execution is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Parwat Singh Anjana , Matin Amini , Rohit Kapoor , Rahul Parmar , Raghavendra Ramesh , Srivatsan Ravi , Joshua Tobkin

Multi-party data management and blockchain systems require data sharing among participants. To provide resilient and consistent data sharing, transactions engines rely on Byzantine FaultTolerant consensus (BFT), which enables operations…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Suyash Gupta , Jelle Hellings , Sajjad Rahnama , Mohammad Sadoghi

A conception of mobile edge generation (MEG) is proposed, where generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models are distributed at edge servers (ESs) and user equipment (UE), enabling joint execution of generation tasks. Various distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruikang Zhong , Xidong Mu , Yimeng Zhang , Mona Jabor , Yuanwei Liu

Consensus mechanism is the core technology for blockchain to ensure that transactions are executed in sequence. It also determines the decentralization, security, and efficiency of blockchain. Existing mechanisms all have certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chenxi Xiong , Ting Yang , Yu Wang , Bing Dong

This paper studies rule-based blocking in Entity Resolution (ER). We propose HyperBlocker, a GPU-accelerated system for blocking in ER. As opposed to previous blocking algorithms and parallel blocking solvers, HyperBlocker employs a…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiaoke Zhu , Min Xie , Ting Deng , Qi Zhang