TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a blockchain deployment at UAE University
T2 - 2019 International Conference on Blockchain Technology, ICBCT 2019
AU - Ismail, Leila
AU - Hameed, Heba
AU - Aishamsi, Mahra
AU - Aihammadi, Manayer
AU - Aidhanhani, Noura
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the United Arab Emirates University (grant number G00002461).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Blockchain technology initially developed for transactions on cryptocurrencies is now gaining popularity in major domains such as education, healthcare, media, government, smart computing, and business enterprise. Blockchain manages the transactions database in a decentralized way replicated on all the nodes with no single governing authority. In this paper, we present a classification and taxonomy of different blockchain development platforms and simulators along with their consensus protocols, the types of supported blockchain networks and programming languages. We also assess the performance of a blockchain application for deployment at the UAE University (UAEU) versus increasing number of nodes, blocks and block size, on top of experimental network latencies and bandwidth between the nodes. Our results show that a large-scale deployment of blockchain at UAEU is feasible.
AB - Blockchain technology initially developed for transactions on cryptocurrencies is now gaining popularity in major domains such as education, healthcare, media, government, smart computing, and business enterprise. Blockchain manages the transactions database in a decentralized way replicated on all the nodes with no single governing authority. In this paper, we present a classification and taxonomy of different blockchain development platforms and simulators along with their consensus protocols, the types of supported blockchain networks and programming languages. We also assess the performance of a blockchain application for deployment at the UAE University (UAEU) versus increasing number of nodes, blocks and block size, on top of experimental network latencies and bandwidth between the nodes. Our results show that a large-scale deployment of blockchain at UAEU is feasible.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Performance
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1145/3320154.3320156
DO - 10.1145/3320154.3320156
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85066481387
SN - 9781450362689
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 30
EP - 38
BT - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 15 March 2019 through 18 March 2019
ER -