Abstract
In this era of abundance of computing devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops, their computation power is yet to be utilized efficiently. To fully utilize their computation power, we have made use of a JavaScript implementation of WebRTC and WebSockets to generate a grid network of connected devices. One of the core features of this platform is its ease of use, where the users can tap into the power by just opening their Chrome browsers, be it on their laptop, computers, or mobile devices. The workload is divided into these connected devices, and the output of each sub-problem is generated in parallel. The core objective of this paper is to illustrate how this approach will significantly reduce the time required to calculate the nonce for a transaction in the crypto-mining process and demonstrate the results of this grid network by comparing the performance in a combination of multiple daily drivers like mobiles and laptops.
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Abbreviations
- WebRTC:
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Web real-time communication
- BOINC:
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Berkeley open infrastructure for network computing
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Lamba, R., Jain, V., Saini, D. (2021). Calculating the Proof of Work Using Volunteer Computing. In: Abraham, A., Castillo, O., Virmani, D. (eds) Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computing Informatics and Networks. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 167. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9712-1_36
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