Blockchain consensus protocols have been a focus of attention since the advent of Bitcoin.
Although classic distributed consensus algorithms made significant contributions to the …

To draw a roadmap of current research activities of the blockchain community, we first
conduct a brief overview of state-of-the-art blockchain surveys published in the past 5 years …

State-of-the-art blockchain sharding solutions, say Monoxide, can induce imbalanced
transaction (TX) distributions among all blockchain shards due to their account deployment …

As a promising solution to blockchain scalability, sharding divides blockchain nodes into
small groups called shards, splitting the workload. Existing works for sharding, however, are …

Sharding is the prevalent approach to breaking the trilemma of simultaneously achieving
decentralization, security, and scalability in traditional blockchain systems, which are …

This article studies the PBFT-based sharded permissioned blockchain, which executes in
either a local datacenter or a rented cloud platform. In such permissioned blockchain, the …

To overcome the limitations on the scalability of current blockchain systems, sharding is
widely considered as a promising solution that divides the network into multiple disjoint …

As a promising technology, blockchain has found widespread application in numerous
decentralized systems. However, the scalability problem of blockchain has drawn …

Blockchain has been widely used in various fields, such as health management, finance, the
Internet of Things (IoT), identity management, and supply chains. However, the performance …

Enterprise-grade permissioned blockchain systems provide a promising infrastructure for
data sharing and cooperation between different companies. However, performance …