Horizontal Scaling of Transaction-Creating Machines for Blockchains

Ole Delzer; Ingo Weber; Richard Hobeck; Stefan Schulte

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-46235-1_7

Horizontal Scaling of Transaction-Creating Machines for Blockchains

Ole Delzer, Ingo Weber, Richard Hobeck, Stefan Schulte

Informatics 34 - Chair of Information System Development and Operation

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

The increasing popularity of blockchains raises the question of how to improve their scalability. While researchers are exploring ways to scale the on-chain processing of transactions, the scalability of the off-chain creation of transactions has not been investigated yet. This is relevant for organizations wishing to send a high volume of transactions in a short time frame, or continuously. Especially for blockchain implementations such as Ethereum which require transactions to include so-called nonces, horizontally scaling transaction creation is non-trivial. In this paper, we propose four different approaches for horizontal scaling of transaction creation in Ethereum. Our experimental evaluation examines the performance of the different approaches in terms of scalability and latency and finds two of the four proposed approaches feasible to scale transaction creation horizontally.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2023, Proceedings
Editors	George A. Papadopoulos, Florian Rademacher, Jacopo Soldani
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	103-118
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783031462344
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46235-1_7
State	Published - 2023
Event	10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2023 - Larnaca, Cyprus Duration: 24 Oct 2023 → 25 Oct 2023

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	14183 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2023
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Larnaca
Period	24/10/23 → 25/10/23

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10.1007/978-3-031-46235-1_7

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Delzer, O., Weber, I., Hobeck, R., & Schulte, S. (2023). Horizontal Scaling of Transaction-Creating Machines for Blockchains. In G. A. Papadopoulos, F. Rademacher, & J. Soldani (Eds.), Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2023, Proceedings (pp. 103-118). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14183 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46235-1_7

Delzer, Ole ; Weber, Ingo ; Hobeck, Richard et al. / Horizontal Scaling of Transaction-Creating Machines for Blockchains. Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2023, Proceedings. editor / George A. Papadopoulos ; Florian Rademacher ; Jacopo Soldani. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 103-118 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Delzer, O, Weber, I, Hobeck, R & Schulte, S 2023, Horizontal Scaling of Transaction-Creating Machines for Blockchains. in GA Papadopoulos, F Rademacher & J Soldani (eds), Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2023, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14183 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 103-118, 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2023, Larnaca, Cyprus, 24/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46235-1_7

Horizontal Scaling of Transaction-Creating Machines for Blockchains. / Delzer, Ole; Weber, Ingo; Hobeck, Richard et al.
Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2023, Proceedings. ed. / George A. Papadopoulos; Florian Rademacher; Jacopo Soldani. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 103-118 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14183 LNCS).

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Delzer O, Weber I, Hobeck R, Schulte S. Horizontal Scaling of Transaction-Creating Machines for Blockchains. In Papadopoulos GA, Rademacher F, Soldani J, editors, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2023, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 103-118. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-46235-1_7