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Blockchains have been increasingly employed in use cases at the network’s edge, such as autonomous vehicles and edge computing. These use cases usually establish new blockchain networks due to operation costs, performance constraints, and the lack of reliable connectivity to public blockchains. The design of these edge blockchain networks heavily influences the quality attributes of blockchain-oriented software deployed upon them. This paper presents a taxonomy of edge blockchain network designs successfully utilized by the existing literature and analyzes their availability when facing failures at nodes and networks. This taxonomy benefits practitioners and researchers by offering a design guide for establishing blockchain networks for edge use cases.
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Tran, N.K., Babar, M.A. (2021). Taxonomy of Edge Blockchain Network Designs. In: Biffl, S., Navarro, E., Löwe, W., Sirjani, M., Mirandola, R., Weyns, D. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12857. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86044-8_12
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