Abstract
With the growing number of blockchain-based solutions in a few industries, we have moved to the next level of digital privacy. Meanwhile, several concerns related to transaction speed, data size, tracking information on public distributed ledgers faced to us. Time constraints and data overflow will lead to high financial expenses. In this paper, we address the efficiency issues of blockchain technology by reviewing recent significant work. First, we list the main challenges facing for efficiency. Then, we survey prior methods to handle efficiency issues studied by authors. Finally, we will discuss open challenges and conclude the work. This work can be helpful to determine future work directions.
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Authors would like to thank Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China and Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of Republic of Uzbekistan. This work also is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China grants (# 61972034), Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security (No. GCIS201803) and Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars (Dr. Keke Gai).
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Odiljon, A., Gai, K. (2019). Efficiency Issues and Solutions in Blockchain: A Survey. In: Qiu, M. (eds) Smart Blockchain. SmartBlock 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11911. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34083-4_8
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