Improving quality of service for users of leaderless DAG-based distributed ledgers
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Author(s)
Cullen, Andrew
Zhao, Lianna
Vigneri, Luigi
Shorten, Robert
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Usability of distributed ledgers is crucial to their mainstream adoption, especially for enterprise applications in which most users do not wish to operate full node infrastructure. Some attempts have been made to solve the problem of user-node interaction for blockchains in which leaders assemble users’ transactions into blocks, but in the case of leaderless DAG-based ledgers such as IOTA, many of these solutions cannot be applied due to the absence of a shared mempool and the ability of nodes to issue blocks in parallel. In this work, we propose a user-node interaction mechanism for ledgers of this kind that is designed to balance user traffic across nodes and ensure the risk of a user experiencing a poor quality of service is low. Our mechanism involves users selecting nodes to issue their transactions to the ledger based on quality of service indicators advertised by the nodes. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed policies.
Date Issued
2023-09
Date Acceptance
2023-05-14
Citation
Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, 2023, 2 (3), pp.1-18
ISSN
2769-6472
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Start Page
1
End Page
18
Journal / Book Title
Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
Volume
2
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© Author | ACM 2023. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3604942
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3604942
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-06-28