Ethereum Transaction Performance Evaluation Using Test-Nets

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Abstract

Blockchain technologies can safely and neutrally store and process transaction data (including smart contracts) on the chain. Based on smart contracts, a special type of applications can be deployed, known as Decentralized Applications (DApps). Within existing Blockchain platforms, Ethereum is the most popular one adopted for DApp developments. The performance constraints of Ethereum dramatical impact usability of DApp. In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the performances of Ethereum from 3 types of tests: 1) Account balance query latency 2) Block generation time and 3) End-to-end transaction acceptance latency. The results show that the end-to-end transaction time in Ethereum is unstable. Consequently, the applications with low latency constraints and high frequency transaction requirements are not ready to be deployed unless off-chain transaction methods are considered.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEuro-Par 2019
Subtitle of host publicationParallel Processing Workshops - International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsUlrich Schwardmann, Christian Boehme, Dora B. Heras, Valeria Cardellini, Emmanuel Jeannot, Antonio Salis, Claudio Schifanella, Ravi Reddy Manumachu, Dieter Schwamborn, Laura Ricci, Oh Sangyoon, Thomas Gruber, Laura Antonelli, Stephen L. Scott
PublisherSpringer
Pages179-190
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030483395
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event25th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, EuroPar 2019 - Göttingen, Germany
Duration: 26 Aug 201930 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11997 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, EuroPar 2019
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityGöttingen
Period26/08/1930/08/19

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • DApp
  • Ethereum
  • Performance
  • Transaction

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