A Blockchain Node Organizing and Auto-Scaling Architecture for the Internet of Things

Elsaadany, Riham; Bégin, Guy

doi:10.1109/bcca58897.2023.10338882

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“…The purpose of this study is to present an efficient multitiered design concept, embodied by the Self-Scalable Dynamic (SSD) [7] architecture in order to address current BC flat and two-tiered models' scalability and efficiency issues. In fact, our design doesn't only address the scalability and efficiency issues of BC systems, but it also aims to address node management and auto-organization as well as consensus decentralization issues that emerge while applying BC into the IoT ecosystem.…”

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A Blockchain Auto-Scaling Node Organizing Design Model for the Internet of Things

ELSAADANY,

Bégin

2024

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Many node-organizing blockchain models for IoT lack the scalability needed for high transaction volumes and mechanisms to manage decentralization and node overhead. This study proposes a multi-tiered Self-Scalable Dynamic architecture based on a forest of trees to improve scalability and efficiency by clustering all nodes to limit those involved in consensus. In addition to the architecture, our contributions include: i) A protocol to speed up consensus. ii) A mechanism for efficient node-lookup and message-routing. iii) A dynamic algorithm to balance overhead and decentralization. iv) A colocality mechanism to enhance consensus time. This architecture reduces consensus time with an upper bound of O(1) plus a propagation delay factor. As more IoT devices join, resulting in a deeper forest, the model becomes more scalable with shorter consensus delays. The proposed mechanisms may serve as general-purpose solutions for scalability, load balancing, node-lookup and message-routing, and are application-, clustering-, and consensus-algorithm-agnostic.

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confidence: 99%