Horizontal scaling of transaction-creating machines for blockchains

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2023-10
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Delzer, Ole
Weber, Ingo  
Hobeck, Richard
Schulte, Stefan  
Data Engineering E-19  
TORE-URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11420/44182
Volume
14183 LNCS
Start Page
103
End Page
118
Citation
European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023)
Contribution to Conference
European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2023  
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-46235-1_7
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85175866082
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ISBN
9783031462344
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.
DDC Class
620: Engineering