Blockchain technology,with its attributes of decentralization,immutability,and traceability,has emerged as a powerful catalyst for enhancing traditional industries in terms of optimizing business processes.However,tra...Blockchain technology,with its attributes of decentralization,immutability,and traceability,has emerged as a powerful catalyst for enhancing traditional industries in terms of optimizing business processes.However,transaction performance and scalability has become the main challenges hindering the widespread adoption of blockchain.Due to its inability to meet the demands of high-frequency trading,blockchain cannot be adopted in many scenarios.To improve the transaction capacity,researchers have proposed some on-chain scaling technologies,including lightning networks,directed acyclic graph technology,state channels,and shardingmechanisms,inwhich sharding emerges as a potential scaling technology.Nevertheless,excessive cross-shard transactions and uneven shard workloads prevent the sharding mechanism from achieving the expected aim.This paper proposes a graphbased sharding scheme for public blockchain to efficiently balance the transaction distribution.Bymitigating crossshard transactions and evening-out workloads among shards,the scheme reduces transaction confirmation latency and enhances the transaction capacity of the blockchain.Therefore,the scheme can achieve a high-frequency transaction as well as a better blockchain scalability.Experiments results show that the scheme effectively reduces the cross-shard transaction ratio to a range of 35%-56%and significantly decreases the transaction confirmation latency to 6 s in a blockchain with no more than 25 shards.展开更多
Hardware/software（HW/SW） partitioning is one of the key processes in an embedded system.It is used to determine which system components are assigned to hardware and which are processed by software.In contrast with p...Hardware/software（HW/SW） partitioning is one of the key processes in an embedded system.It is used to determine which system components are assigned to hardware and which are processed by software.In contrast with previous research that focuses on developing efficient heuristic,we focus on the pre-process of the task graph before the HW/SW partitioning in this paper,that is,enumerating all the sub-graphs that meet the requirements.Experimental results showed that the original graph can be reduced to 67% in the worst-case scenario and 58% in the best-case scenario.In conclusion,the reduced task graph saved hardware area while improving partitioning speed and accuracy.展开更多
基金supported by Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Program of China(2021CXGC010107,2020CXGC010107)the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(ZR2020KF035)the New 20 Project of Higher Education of Jinan,China(202228017).
文摘Blockchain technology,with its attributes of decentralization,immutability,and traceability,has emerged as a powerful catalyst for enhancing traditional industries in terms of optimizing business processes.However,transaction performance and scalability has become the main challenges hindering the widespread adoption of blockchain.Due to its inability to meet the demands of high-frequency trading,blockchain cannot be adopted in many scenarios.To improve the transaction capacity,researchers have proposed some on-chain scaling technologies,including lightning networks,directed acyclic graph technology,state channels,and shardingmechanisms,inwhich sharding emerges as a potential scaling technology.Nevertheless,excessive cross-shard transactions and uneven shard workloads prevent the sharding mechanism from achieving the expected aim.This paper proposes a graphbased sharding scheme for public blockchain to efficiently balance the transaction distribution.Bymitigating crossshard transactions and evening-out workloads among shards,the scheme reduces transaction confirmation latency and enhances the transaction capacity of the blockchain.Therefore,the scheme can achieve a high-frequency transaction as well as a better blockchain scalability.Experiments results show that the scheme effectively reduces the cross-shard transaction ratio to a range of 35%-56%and significantly decreases the transaction confirmation latency to 6 s in a blockchain with no more than 25 shards.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60970016,61173032)
文摘Hardware/software（HW/SW） partitioning is one of the key processes in an embedded system.It is used to determine which system components are assigned to hardware and which are processed by software.In contrast with previous research that focuses on developing efficient heuristic,we focus on the pre-process of the task graph before the HW/SW partitioning in this paper,that is,enumerating all the sub-graphs that meet the requirements.Experimental results showed that the original graph can be reduced to 67% in the worst-case scenario and 58% in the best-case scenario.In conclusion,the reduced task graph saved hardware area while improving partitioning speed and accuracy.
