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Living at the Edge: Running IPFS and Ethereum Client Software on Single-board Computers
Publikationstyp
Technical Report
Date Issued
2020
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Start Page
20
End Page
23
Citation
KuVS-Fachgespräch Fog Computing (2020)
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Publisher
Universitätsbibliothek TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Blockchains and decentralized file systems like the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) are frequently named as means to share data among different devices and stakeholders in Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. Very often, the idea is to connect lightweight IoT-based data sources, e.g., sensor nodes, to a ledger or a file system via a Single-board Computer (SBC), i.e., using computational resources at the edge of the network for providing an interface between the data sources and the ledger or file system.
However, SBCs like a Raspberry Pi naturally possess only limited resources, and therefore may not be suitable to provide an interface between IoT-based data sources and decentralized ledgers and file systems. Within this paper, we evaluate the applicability and performance of common SBCs, namely the Raspberry Pi 3, the Odroid-XU4, and the Intel Galileo Gen2, when used in order to run IPFS and Ethereum client software.
However, SBCs like a Raspberry Pi naturally possess only limited resources, and therefore may not be suitable to provide an interface between IoT-based data sources and decentralized ledgers and file systems. Within this paper, we evaluate the applicability and performance of common SBCs, namely the Raspberry Pi 3, the Odroid-XU4, and the Intel Galileo Gen2, when used in order to run IPFS and Ethereum client software.
DDC Class
004: Informatik