The slower than expected adoption rate of blockchain technology has highlighted that there
are barriers due to the diversity of its applications and its users. To overcome this limitation …

Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are severely limited in transaction throughput and
latency. A promising solution to this issue is a payment channel, which allows trust-free …

The blockchain with a distributed network structure can provide a reliable and secure
environment for Internet of Things (IoT) transactions, which also suffers from low throughput …

Blockchain technology era is triggered due to current advancement in the decentralized
paradigms via facilitating secure collaboration among untrusted entities consequently …

The lack of scalability is a leading issue of blockchain. By transferring transactions to off-
chain, 2-party payment channels achieve instant transaction confirmation between channel …

State sharding is a promising approach to address the scalability issue in the blockchain
system. However, the previous sharding schemes using the fixed data partitioning …

Cross-chain dApps (decentralized applications) are enabled by smart contracts
interoperability on heterogeneous blockchains. Previous work on cross-chain smart contract …

Payment channels (PC) greatly improve blockchain scalability by allowing an unlimited
number of off-chain transactions instead of committing every transaction to the blockchain …

Consensus algorithm is the core component of consortium blockchains. Equality,
Unpredictability and Scalability are three important demands for the consensus algorithms of …

Scalability is one of the main problems limiting blockchain applications. Most recent
research on blockchain scalability has focused on improving the consensus layer, but the …