Abstract
Blockchain is a decentralized infrastructure widely used in emerging digital cryptocurrencies. With the fast development of blockchain technology, there are many new achievements in industry and academia. As a decentralized, shared and encrypted distributed ledger technology, blockchain has three distinctive features: decentralization, traceability, and non-tampering. Therefore, the blockchain technology has been used to implement transaction autonomy, save regulatory costs, and improve security. Its birth was even considered to be the fourth industrial revolution. However, the blockchain is still at an early stage of development, and has not been widely applied in practices. One of the main reason is the low performance issue. In order to better understand the state-of-art of the blockchain, we first introduce the architecture and consensus protocols of the current mainstream blockchain systems, then analyze some open source blockchain benchmarking tools, and summarize some blockchain systems optimization methods. Finally, we propose some suggestions for future development of blockchain systems.
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This work is supported by China National Basic Research Program (973 Program, No. 2015CB352400), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61572487, 61572488), Equipment Pre-Research Foundation (No. 61400020403), Shenzhen Basic Research Program (No. JCYJ20180302145731531), and Shenzhen Discipline Construction Project for Urban Computing and Data Intelligence.
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Wang, R., Ye, K., Xu, CZ. (2019). Performance Benchmarking and Optimization for Blockchain Systems: A Survey. In: Joshi, J., Nepal, S., Zhang, Q., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Blockchain – ICBC 2019. ICBC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23404-1_12
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