Blockchain consensus protocols have been a focus of attention since the advent of Bitcoin.
Although classic distributed consensus algorithms made significant contributions to the …

Blockchains-based smart contracts are disrupting the smart real estate sector of the smart
cities. The current study explores the literature focused on blockchain smart contracts in …

State-of-the-art blockchain sharding solutions, say Monoxide, can induce imbalanced
transaction (TX) distributions among all blockchain shards due to their account deployment …

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 …

As a promising solution to blockchain scalability, sharding divides blockchain nodes into
small groups called shards, splitting the workload. Existing works for sharding, however, are …

Blockchain performance cannot meet the requirement nowadays. One of the crucial ways to
improve performance is sharding. However, most blockchain sharding research focuses on …

Blockchain has attracted lots of attention in recent years. However, the performance of
blockchain cannot meet the requirement of massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices. One of …

Blockchain performance cannot meet the requirement nowadays. One of the crucial ways to
improve performance is sharding. However, most blockchain sharding research focuses on …

Sharding has been considered as a prominent approach to enhance the limited
performance of blockchain. However, most sharding systems leverage a non-cooperative …

Blockchain databases have attracted widespread attention but suffer from poor scalability
due to underlying non-scalable blockchains. While blockchain sharding is necessary for a …