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

J Zhang, W Chen, Z Hong, G Xiao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.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 …

LightCross: Sharding with Lightweight Cross-Shard Execution for Smart Contracts

X Qi, Y Li - IEEE INFOCOM 2024-IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding is a prevailing solution to enhance the scalability of current blockchain systems.
However, the cross-shard commit protocols adopted in these systems to commit cross-shard …

Cross-shard transaction processing in sharding blockchains

Y Liu, J Liu, J Yin, G Li, H Yu, Q Wu - … , ICA3PP 2020, New York City, NY …, 2020 - Springer
Sharding blockchains could improve the transaction throughput and achieve scalibility,
making the application fields of the blockchain technology more extensive. Cross-shard …

Efficient cross-shard transaction execution in sharded blockchains

S Das, V Krishnan, L Ren - arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14521, 2020 - arxiv.org
Sharding is a promising blockchain scaling solution. But it currently suffers from high latency
and low throughput when it comes to cross-shard transactions, ie, transactions that require …

Estuary: A Low Cross-Shard Blockchain Sharding Protocol Based on State Splitting

L Jia, Y Liu, K Wang, Y Sun - IEEE Transactions on Parallel …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding is one of the most promising technologies for significantly increasing blockchain
transaction throughput. However, as the number of shards increases, the ratio of cross-shard …

X-Shard: Optimistic Cross-Shard Transaction Processing for Sharding-Based Blockchains

J Xu, Y Ming, Z Wu, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in cryptocurrencies have sparked significant interest in blockchain
technology. However, scalability issues remain a major challenge for wide adoption of …

Jenga: Orchestrating smart contracts in sharding-based blockchain for efficient processing

M Li, Y Lin, J Zhang, W Wang - 2022 IEEE 42nd International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding is a promising way to achieve blockchain scalability, increasing the throughput by
partitioning nodes into multiple smaller groups, splitting the workload. However, when …

Optchain: optimal transactions placement for scalable blockchain sharding

LN Nguyen, TDT Nguyen, TN Dinh… - 2019 IEEE 39th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A major challenge in blockchain sharding protocols is that more than 95% transactions are
cross-shard. Not only those cross-shard transactions degrade the system throughput but …

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 …