Heuristic-based Blockchain Assignment: An Empirical Study

Jianyu Chen, Keke Gai*, Peng Jiang, Liehuang Zhu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The power of blockchain is compromised with the rapid growth of blockchain size, which puts a heavy storage burden on each node in the blockchain system due to the limited capacity. A mainstream technology to overcome the scalability limitations is to combine sharding with the multiple-replication mechanism to split the storage overhead among nodes. However, the computation complexity for generating block allocation strategy will be exponentially growing when both the sizes of blocks, nodes, and replications boom. In this paper, we abstract the assignment problem on blockchain as an Energy-aware Block Allocation Minimum Problem (EBAMP) and implement several heuristic algorithms, including genetic algorithms, discrete particle swarm algorithms and greedy algorithms. In order to identify similarities and differences of these algorithms, we compare and analyze different methods based on common principles.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication19th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, 14th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking and 11th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages916-923
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781665435741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event19th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, 14th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking and 11th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom 2021 - New York, United States
Duration: 30 Sept 20213 Oct 2021

Publication series

Name19th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, 14th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking and 11th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom 2021

Conference

Conference19th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, 14th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking and 11th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period30/09/213/10/21

Keywords

  • Block assignment
  • Blockchain
  • Heuristic
  • Optimization

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