A survey of state-of-the-art sharding blockchains: Models, components, and attack surfaces

Y Li, J Wang, H Zhang - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Adaptchain: Adaptive scaling blockchain with transaction deduplication

J Xu, Q Xie, S Peng, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although existing schemes improve blockchain throughput by allowing concurrent blocks to
be appended to the blockchain, little attention has been devoted to adjusting blockchain …

MetaShard: A Novel Sharding Blockchain Platform for Metaverse Applications

CT Nguyen, DT Hoang, DN Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to its security, transparency, and flexibility in verifying virtual assets, blockchain has
been identified as one of the key technologies for Metaverse. Unfortunately, blockchain …

CSIMH: Design of an Efficient Security-Aware Customized Sidechaining Model via Iterative Meta-Heuristics

N Balani, P Chavan - Journal of Applied Security Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Blockchains are a secure alternative for long-length data storage & security deployments.
Though blockchains are unbounded, their quality of service (QoS) performance reduces …

A game-theory-based scheme to facilitate consensus latency minimization in sharding blockchain

C Guo, B Zheng, Y Jie, Y Liu, Y Hu - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Unbalanced consensus latency in reaching a consensus on transactions occurs due to
differences in the ability of different committees to process transactions. As the consensus …

LearningChain: A Highly Scalable and Applicable Learning-Based Blockchain Performance Optimization Framework

J Wang, Y Wang, X Zhang, Z Jin, C Zhu… - … on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain is a trans-generational technology that is gradually introduced and applied in
many fields because of its characteristics such as tamper-proof, traceability, and …

Detecting abnormal behaviors in smart contracts using opcode sequences

P Li, G Wang, X Xing, J Zhu, W Gu, G Zhai - Computer Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
With the fast growth of blockchain technology, blockchain as a decentralized distributed
ledger technology has become more widely used and is gradually changing our way of life …

HybridChain: Fast, Accurate, and Secure Transaction Processing With Distributed Learning

A Taherpour, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to fully unlock the transformative power of distributed ledgers and blockchains, it is
crucial to develop innovative consensus algorithms that can overcome the obstacles of …

Efficient Execution of Arbitrarily Complex Cross-shard Contracts for Blockchain Sharding

J Zhang, W Chen, Z Hong, G Xiao, L Du… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - computer.org
Sharding is a promising solution to enhance the scalability of blockchain. However, previous
sharding systems adopt the lock-based cross-shard protocol to exclusively handle one-shot …

Sharding SMR with Optimal-size Shards for Highly Scalable Blockchains

J Zhang, Z Luo, R Ramesh, A Kate - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08252, 2024 - arxiv.org
Sharding can enhance blockchain scalability by dividing nodes into multiple shards to
handle transactions in parallel. However, the size-security dilemma where a shard must be …