Abstract
Blockchain technology is experiencing prosperity. A wide variety of open source blockchains emerge recent years, which are different in architecture design or protocol parameters. When a developer wants to compare runtime performance of different blockchains, he could conduct a simulation with event simulator, or run application on physical machines. Either way will result in problems of unconvincing or costly. Container, a lightweight virtualization technique, is suitable for solving this dilemma. Tens of containers could run simultaneously in a single-core CPU computer, with each container having a running blockchain client. A simulated blockchain network with hundreds of nodes could be easily established in this way. In this paper, we firstly overview blockchain architecture choices which will significantly affect performance. Then we introduce our framework on testing blockchains using containerization. Authenticity and high cost of P2P application testing would be balanced in this framework. Finally, we implement our framework to run a demo testing how bitcoin’s network parameters will affect system reliability.
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This work has been financially supported by Shenzhen Key Fundamental Research Projects (Grant No. JCYJ20170412151008290, JCYJ20170306091556329 and JCYJ20170412150946024).
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Chen, C., Qi, Z., Liu, Y., Lei, K. (2018). Using Virtualization for Blockchain Testing. In: Qiu, M. (eds) Smart Computing and Communication. SmartCom 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73830-7_29
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