Blockchain is an inspiring emerging technology that takes much attention from various
researchers and companies. The technology offers various benefits such as data security …

A medical cyber–physical system (MCPS) is a unique cyber–physical system (CPS), which
combines embedded software control devices, networking capabilities, and complex …

Existing blockchain systems scale poorly because of their distributed consensus protocols.
Current attempts at improving blockchain scalability are limited to cryptocurrency. Scaling …

Blockchains have recently been under the spotlight due to the boom of cryptocurrencies and
decentralized applications. There is an increasing demand for querying the data stored in a …

Database System Concepts, Seventh Edition Page 1 Database System Concepts
SEVENTH EDITION Abraham Silberschatz Henry F. Korth S. Sudarshan Page 2 …

The success of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies bring enormous interest to blockchains. A
blockchain system implements a tamper-evident ledger for recording transactions that …

Blockchain technology has attracted much attention due to the great success of the
cryptocurrencies. Owing to its immutability property and consensus protocol, blockchain …

With the emergence of hybrid blockchain database systems, we aim to provide an in-depth
analysis of the performance and trade-offs among a few representative systems. To achieve …

Recent advancements in high-performance networking interconnect significantly narrow the
performance gap between intra-node and inter-node communications, and open up …

Blockchain performance cannot meet the requirement nowadays. One of the crucial ways to
improve performance is sharding. However, most blockchain sharding research focuses on …