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 …

SpiralShard: Highly Concurrent and Secure Blockchain Sharding via Linked Cross-shard Endorsement

Y Lin, M Li, J Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08651, 2024 - arxiv.org
Blockchain sharding improves the scalability of blockchain systems by partitioning the whole
blockchain state, nodes, and transaction workloads into different shards. However, existing …

CoChain: High concurrency blockchain sharding via consensus on consensus

M Li, Y Lin, J Zhang, W Wang - IEEE INFOCOM 2023-IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding is an effective technique to improve the scalability of blockchain. It splits nodes into
multiple groups so that they can process transactions in parallel. To achieve higher …

Pyramid: A layered sharding blockchain system

Z Hong, S Guo, P Li, W Chen - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding can significantly improve the blockchain scalability, by dividing nodes into small
groups called shards that can handle transactions in parallel. However, all existing sharding …

SP-Chain: Boosting Intra-Shard and Cross-Shard Security and Performance in Blockchain Sharding

M Li, Y Lin, W Wang, J Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06953, 2024 - arxiv.org
A promising way to overcome the scalability limitations of the current blockchain is to use
sharding, which is to split the transaction processing among multiple, smaller groups of …

Kronos: A Robust Sharding Blockchain Consensus with Optimal Communication Overhead

A Liu, Y Liu, Z Pan, Y Li, J Liu, Y Lu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03655, 2024 - arxiv.org
Sharding enhances blockchain scalability by dividing the network into shards, each
managing specific unspent transaction outputs or accounts. Cross-shard transactions pose a …

DL-Chain: Scalable and Stable Blockchain Sharding with High Concurrency via Dual-Layer Consensus

Y Lin, M Li, Q Wei, Y Liu, SMR Goh, J Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Sharding enhances blockchain scalability by partitioning nodes into multiple groups for
concurrent transaction processing. Configuring a large number of\emph {small shards} helps …

Sharper: Sharding permissioned blockchains over network clusters

MJ Amiri, D Agrawal, A El Abbadi - Proceedings of the 2021 international …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Scalability is one of the main roadblocks to business adoption of blockchain systems.
Despite recent intensive research on using sharding techniques to enhance the scalability of …

[PDF][PDF] Frustum: achieving high throughput in blockchain systems through hierarchical and pipelined sharding

Y Xu, W Wu, Y Gong, KY Wang, C Hu, D Cheng - 2024 - elsp-homepage.oss-cn-hongkong …
Sharding, breaking nodes into smaller groups, aims to enhance the scalability of traditional
blockchain systems by allowing parallel transaction processing. However, existing sharding …

A Secure and Efficient Blockchain Sharding Scheme via Hybrid Consensus and Dynamic Management

M Li, X Luo, K Xue, Y Xue, W Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding significantly enhances blockchain scalability by dividing the entire network into
smaller shards that reach consensus and process transactions in parallel. Nevertheless, two …