Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
7-2019
Abstract
As a distributed ledger technology, the block-chain has gained much attention from both the industrical and academical fields, but most of the existing blockchain protocols still have the cubical dilatation problem. Although the latest Rollerchain has mitigated this issue by changing the blockheader's contents, the low efficiency, severe capacity expansion and non-scalability problems still hinder the adoption of Rollerchain in practice. To this end, we present the pruneable sharding-based blockchain protocol by utilizing the sharding technique and PBFT(Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) algorithm in the improved Rollerchain, which has high efficiency, slow cubical dilatation, small capacity expansion and high scalability. Moreover, the pruneable sharding-based blockchain protocol is certifiably secure and scalable. The experimental results show the protocol has good performance.
Keywords
Cubical dilatation, Efficiency, Capacity expansion, Scalability, Sharding technique
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Cybersecurity
Publication
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
Volume
12
Issue
4
First Page
934
Last Page
950
ISSN
1936-6442
Identifier
10.1007/s12083-018-0685-6
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Citation
FENG, Xiaoqin; MA, Jianfeng; MIAO, Yinbin; MENG, Qian; LIU, Ximeng; JIANG, Qi; and LI, Hui.
Pruneable sharding-based blockchain protocol. (2019). Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. 12, (4), 934-950.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5153
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-018-0685-6