International Journal of Network Management

Volume 30, Issue 5 e2099

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FastFabric: Scaling hyperledger fabric to 20 000 transactions per second

Christian Gorenflo,

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Christian Gorenflo

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David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Christian Gorenflo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.

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Stephen Lee,

Stephen Lee

Department of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Lukasz Golab,

Lukasz Golab

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Srinivasan Keshav,

Srinivasan Keshav

Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Christian Gorenflo,

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Christian Gorenflo

[email protected]

orcid.org/0000-0002-0798-0748

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Christian Gorenflo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.

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Stephen Lee,

Stephen Lee

Department of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Lukasz Golab,

Lukasz Golab

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Srinivasan Keshav,

Srinivasan Keshav

Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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First published: 11 February 2020

https://doi.org/10.1002/nem.2099

Citations: 125

Stephen Lee was affiliated with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, during the creation of this work and Srinivasan Keshav was affiliated with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, during the creation of this work.

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Summary

Blockchain technologies are expected to make a significant impact on a variety of industries. However, one issue holding them back is their limited transaction throughput, especially compared to established solutions such as distributed database systems. In this paper, we rearchitect a modern permissioned blockchain system, Hyperledger Fabric, to increase transaction throughput from 3000 to 20 000 transactions per second. We focus on performance bottlenecks beyond the consensus mechanism, and we propose architectural changes that reduce computation and I/O overhead during transaction ordering and validation to greatly improve throughput. Notably, our optimizations are fully plug-and-play and do not require any interface changes to Hyperledger Fabric.

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