Building blocks of sharding blockchain systems: Concepts, approaches, and open problems

Y Liu, J Liu, MAV Salles, Z Zhang, T Li, B Hu… - Computer Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sharding is the prevalent approach to breaking the trilemma of simultaneously achieving
decentralization, security, and scalability in traditional blockchain systems, which are …

Sybil in the haystack: A comprehensive review of blockchain consensus mechanisms in search of strong Sybil attack resistance

M Platt, P McBurney - Algorithms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Consensus algorithms are applied in the context of distributed computer systems to improve
their fault tolerance. The explosive development of distributed ledger technology following …

A survey on blockchain sharding

X Liu, H Xie, Z Yan, X Liang - ISA transactions, 2023 - Elsevier
As a promising technology, blockchain has found widespread application in numerous
decentralized systems. However, the scalability problem of blockchain has drawn …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Machine Learning for Blockchain and IoT Systems in Smart Cities: A Survey

E Dritsas, M Trigka - Future Internet, 2024 - mdpi.com
The integration of machine learning (ML), blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT) in
smart cities represents a pivotal advancement in urban innovation. This convergence …

A blockchain-based cross-domain authentication management system for IoT devices

Y Liu, A Liu, Y Xia, B Hu, J Liu, Q Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the emergence of the resource and equipment sharing concept, many enterprises and
organizations begin to implement cross-domain sharing of devices, especially in the field of …

RHCA: Robust HCA via Consistent Revoting

Z Zhang, K Feng, X Chen, X Liu, H Sun - Mathematics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Since the emergence of blockchain, how to improve its transaction throughput and reduce
transaction latency has always been an important issue. Hostuff has introduced a pipeline …

Blockchain-based access control approaches

Y Liu, M Qiu, J Liu, M Liu - 2021 8th IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the existing blockchain consensus mechanisms that can be applied
to access control scenarios and analyze advantages and disadvantages for each category …

A secure shard reconfiguration protocol for sharding blockchains without a randomness

Y Liu, J Liu, Y Hei, W Tan, Q Wu - 2020 IEEE 19th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In permissionless blockchains, due to the corruption attack of an adversary, nodes
participating the protocol need to be updated regularly. In the process of node selection and …

A Comprehensive Review on Blockchain Scalability

A Matani, A Sahafi, A Broumandnia - Journal of Electrical and …, 2024 - jecei.sru.ac.ir
Background and Objectives: Blockchain technology as a distributed and tamper-proof data
ledger is attracting more and more attention from various fields around the world. Due to the …