LB-Chain: Load-Balanced and Low-Latency Blockchain Sharding via Account Migration

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 34; no. 10; pp. 2797 - 2810
• Main Authors: Li, Mingzhe, Wang, Wei, Zhang, Jin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Account migration; Blockchain; blockchain sharding; Blockchains; Cryptography; Delays; load balance; Performance degradation; Performance evaluation; Prediction algorithms; Protocols; Resource management; Sharding; Throughput

Blockchain sharding has been increasingly used to improve blockchain systems' performance, in which a blockchain is split into multiple smaller, disjoint shards. In practice, however, sharding can only achieve limited throughput and latency improvement, especially for the user-perceived transac...