BlockSIM: A practical simulation tool for optimal network design, stability and planning.
BlockSIM: A practical simulation tool for optimal network design, stability and planning.
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BlockSIM：一款用于优化网络设计、稳定性和规划的实用仿真工具。
DOI：
10.1109/bloc.2019.8751320
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Rohit Kumar
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作者：
Santosh Pandey;Gopal Ojha;B. Shrestha;Rohit Kumar
随着区块链的好处变得明显，在过去的一年里，我们看到基于区块链的系统的使用出现了爆炸性增长。然而，与任何新技术一样，区块链的采用伴随着尚未广为人知的风险，这些风险应该在设计和开发之前得到适当的评估和了解。鉴于区块链的纯分布式性质，其中节点可以跨越大陆，在规划和设计区块链系统时，一个关键方面是在设计基于区块链的系统时考虑最终的一致性、系统稳定性和可扩展性，这一方面不容易被纳入现代架构师的行话。到目前为止，几乎没有可用的实用工具来帮助架构师更好地理解和规划上述情况，这一事实使情况变得更加复杂。本文介绍了一个全面、开源的区块链系统仿真工具BlockSIM，它可以帮助区块链架构师通过运行场景来更好地评估规划中的私有区块链网络的性能，并决定适合他们目的的最佳系统参数。我们将我们的模拟结果与真实的区块链网络进行了比较，证明了区块链系统的架构师可以有效地使用BlockSIM来规划和实现可扩展、稳定和弹性的区块链网络。最后，我们通过一个真实的例子展示了架构师如何应用BlockSIM来规划和设计现实世界的区块链系统。
As the benefits of blockchain become clear, in the past year we have witnessed an explosive growth in the use of blockchain based systems. However, as with any new technology, adoption of blockchain carries with it, as yet not widely known, risks that should be properly evaluated and understood prior to design and development. Given the purely distributed nature of blockchain, in which nodes can span continents, a key aspect in planning and designing blockchain systems which is not readily incorporated in a modern architect’s vernacular is consideration of eventual consistency, system stability and scalability when designing blockchain based systems. This is compounded by the fact that, as yet, very few practical tools are available to help architects better understand and plan for the above. In this paper we introduce BlockSIM, a comprehensive and open source blockchain system simulation tool which can assist blockchain architects better evaluate the performance of planned private blockchain networks by running scenarios and decide the optimal system parameters suited for their purposes. We compare the results of our simulation with real blockchain networks and demonstrate that BlockSIM can be used effectively by architects of blockchain systems to plan and implement scalable, stable and resilient blockchain networks. Finally, we demonstrate via a real life example how architects can apply BlockSIM to plan and design real-world blockchain systems.
影响因子：
2.2
作者：
Aste, Tomaso;Tasca, Paolo;Di Matteo, Tiziana
通讯作者：
Di Matteo, Tiziana