[en] Interest in the decentralised nature of blockchain-based distributed ledgers has rapidly grown over
the past few years. While a portion of this interest is fuelled by the price surge in Bitcoin towards the
end of 2017, numerous companies across industries such as healthcare and finance have shown a keen interest in this technology and begun investing in diverse research projects.
The work presented in this dissertation proposes a series of enhancements to blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies by focusing on a key element in the system: the transaction. By investigating the life cycle of a transaction in popular blockchain systems like bitcoin and ethereum, several enhancements were identified to tackle some of the challenges under active research today by the blockchain community.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
FIZ PONTIVEROS, Beltran ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)
Language :
English
Title :
A Transaction’s Journey: Transactional Enhancements for Public Blockchain-based Distributed Ledgers
Defense date :
14 January 2019
Number of pages :
118
Institution :
Unilu - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
