Spring: Improving the throughput of sharding blockchain via deep reinforcement learning based state placement

P Li, M Song, M **ng, Z **ao, Q Ding, S Guan… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Sharding provides an opportunity to overcome the inherent scalability challenges of the
blockchain, which is the infrastructure for the next generation of the Web. In a sharding …

Account Migration across Blockchain Shards using Fine-tuned Lock Mechanism

H Huang, Y Lin, Z Zheng - IEEE INFOCOM 2024-IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding is one of the most promising techniques for improving blockchain scalability. In
blockchain state sharding, account migration across shards is crucial to the low ratio of cross …

Broker2Earn: towards maximizing broker revenue and system liquidity for sharded blockchains

Q Chen, H Huang, Z Yin, G Ye… - IEEE INFOCOM 2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cross-shard Transactions (CTXs) widely exist in sharded blockchains. CTXs have to endure
large confirmation latency because they need to participate in consensus in both their …

Solving Confirmation Time in Sharded Blockchain with PFQN

J Wu, H Du, J Chen, W Ren - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sharding shows great potential for extending the efficiency of blockchains. The current
challenge facing sharded blockchain technology lies in addressing the extended transaction …

TransShard: A Dynamic Transaction-Aware Sharding Scheme for Account-Based Blockchain

Q Wang, Y Guan - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The poor scalability of blockchain technology restricts its application in large-scale networks.
Sharding technology is viewed as the most promising on-chain solution to improving …

Hammer: A General Blockchain Evaluation Framework

G Wang, Y Zhang, C Ying, X Lit… - 2024 IEEE 44th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rising proliferation of blockchain systems and applications, choosing the
appropriate blockchains to deploy applications is critical to achieving optimal performance …

SharAcc: Enhancing scalability and security in Attribute-Based Access Control with sharding-based blockchain and full decentralization

Y Ding, Z Wu, Y Miao, M Ding - Computer Networks, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Existing Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) systems face significant
challenges, primarily due to their reliance on a single attribute management authority, which …

Dhcache: a dual-hash cache for optimizing the read performance in key-value store

J Lu, M Lv, P Li, Z Yuan, P **e - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2025 - Springer
Key-value (KV) stores are widely utilized in data-intensive applications to obtain exceptional
storage performance. However, its caching mechanism often suffers read and write pauses …

BrokerChain: A Blockchain Sharding Protocol by Exploiting Broker Accounts

H Huang, Z Yin, Q Chen, G Ye, X Peng, Y Lin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
State-of-the-art blockchain sharding solutions such as Monoxide, can cause severely
imbalanced distribution of transaction (TX) workloads across all blockchain shards due to …

Presto: Optimizing Cross-Shard Transactions in Sharded Blockchain Architecture

Q Ding, R Zhang, S Yin, PZ Li, S Guan… - 2024 43rd …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain sharding technology has been used to enhance the scalability of blockchain
systems. As the number of shards increases, the high latency inherent in cross-shard …