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 …

Bodyless block propagation: Tps fully scalable blockchain with pre-validation

C Zhao, S Zhang, T Wang, SC Liew - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2025 - Elsevier
Despite numerous prior attempts to boost transaction per second (TPS) of blockchain
system, most of them were at a price of degraded decentralization and security. In this paper …

Reducing CO2 emissions in a peer-to-peer distributed payment network: Does geography matter in the lightning network?

D Valko, D Kudenko - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-related globally distributed peer-to-peer networks
have become an important payment infrastructure. Because they are naturally decentralized …

Mercury: Fast Transaction Broadcast in High Performance Blockchain Systems

M Zhou, L Zeng, Y Han, P Li, F Long… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain systems must be secure and offer high performance. These systems rely on
transaction broadcast mechanisms to provide both of these features. Unfortunately, in …

PRESYNC: An Efficient Transaction Synchronization Protocol to Accelerate Block Propagation

Y Li, L Liang, Y Jia, W Wen - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Block propagation is a critical step in the consensus process, which determines the fork rate
and transaction throughput of public blockchain systems. To accelerate block propagation …

Hyperclique: A Novel P2P Network Structure for Blockchain Systems

X You, S Zhang, T Wang… - … Conference on Computing …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel P2P broadcast network called Hyperclique, which assigns a
coordinate value to each peer in the network with adjustable dimensionality. Based on the …

Pioplat: A Scalable, Low-Cost Framework for Latency Reduction in Ethereum Blockchain

K Wang, Q Wang, Y Li, Z Guan, Z Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08367, 2024 - arxiv.org
As decentralized applications on permissionless blockchains are prevalent, more and more
latency-sensitive usage scenarios emerged, where the lower the latency of sending and …

Towards Optimized Peer Connectivity in Blockchain Networks using Digital Twin

PVN Prashanth, SK Yellaveni, S Mouli… - 2024 34th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimized peer connectivity is crucial for reducing network latency in peer-to-peer (P2P)
blockchain networks which in-turn contributes to achieve higher transaction rates. A new …

GeoConnect: Efficient Peer to Peer Network Connectivity for Blockchain Systems

M Aquib, P Prashanth - 2024 15th International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the proliferation of blockchain systems across various sectors, optimizing network
latency in peer-to-peer P2P blockchain networks has become crucial for achieving higher …

Communication Cost for Permissionless Distributed Consensus at Internet Scale

D Guzman, D Trossen, J Ott - Proceedings of the ACM Conext-2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The diffusion of information that evolves a distributed computing state is a fundamental
operation of a permissionless distributed consensus system (DCS). This permissionless …