XRP-NDN overlay: Improving the Communication Efficiency of Consensus-Validation based Blockchains with an NDN Overlay

[en] With growing adoption of Distributed Ledger Technologies, their networks must scale while maintaining efficient communication for the underlying consensus and replication mechanisms. New content distribution concepts like Named Data Networking create opportunities to achieve this goal. We present and evaluate XRP-NDN overlay, a solution to increase communication efficiency for consensus-validation blockchains like XRP Ledger. We send consensus messages over different communication models and show that the chosen model lowers the number of messages at node level to minimum, while maintaining or improving performance by leveraging overlay advantages.

Research center :

- Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > SEDAN - Service and Data Management in Distributed Systems

Disciplines :

Computer science

Author, co-author :

TRESTIOREANU, Lucian Andrei ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN

SHBAIR, Wazen ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN

SCHEIDT DE CRISTO, Flaviene ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN

STATE, Radu ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN

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Language :

English

Title :

XRP-NDN overlay: Improving the Communication Efficiency of Consensus-Validation based Blockchains with an NDN Overlay

Publication date :

08 May 2023

Event name :

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium

Event place :

Miami, United States

Event date :

8-12 May 2023

Audience :

International

Journal title :

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium

ISSN :

1542-1201

Publisher :

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, United States - New York

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Focus Area :

Security, Reliability and Trust

FnR Project :

FNR10621687 - Security And Privacy For System Protection, 2015 (01/01/2017-30/06/2023) - Sjouke Mauw

Funders :

FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche

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