SymBChainSim: A Novel Simulation Tool for Dynamic and Adaptive Blockchain Management and its Trilemma Tradeoff

Diamantopoulos，Georgios1,2; Bahsoon，Rami1; Tziritas，Nikos3; Theodoropoulos，Georgios4

10.1145/3573900.3591121

2023

ACM SIGSIM International Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (ACMSIGSIM-PADS)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 ACM SIGSIM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF ADVANCED DISCRETE SIMULATION, ACMSIGSIM-PADS 2023

JUN 21-23, 2023

null,Orlando,FL

1601 Broadway, 10th Floor, NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY

Despite the recent increase in the popularity of blockchain, the technology suffers from the trilemma trade-off between security decentralisation and scalability prohibiting adoption, and limiting the efficiency and effectiveness of the induced system. Addressing the trilemma trade-off calls for dynamic management and configuration of the blockchain system. In particular, choosing an effective and efficient consensus protocol for balancing the trilemma trade-off when inducing the blockchain-based system is acknowledged to be a challenging problem given the dynamic and complex nature of the blockchain environment. DDDAS approaches are particularly suitable for this challenge, and in previous work, the authors presented a novel DDDAS-based blockchain architecture and demonstrated that it offers a promising approach for dynamically adjusting the parameters of a system and optimising for the trade-off. This paper presents a novel simulation tool that can support and satisfy the DDDAS requirements for a dynamically re-configurable blockchain system. The tool supports the simulation and the dynamic switching of consensus protocols, analysing their trilemma trade-off. The simulator design is modular and allows the implementation and analysis of a wide range of consensus protocols and their implementation scenarios, along with the ability for parallelization. The paper also presents a quantitative evaluation of the tool.

Blockchain Infosymbiotic Systems DDDAS Digital Twin Simulation Optimisation

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英语

EI ; CPCI-S

Shenzhen Science and Technology Program, China[GJHZ20210705141807022]

Computer Science

Computer Science, Information Systems ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods

WOS:001119199100019

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1.School of Computer Science,University of Birmingham,Birmingham,United Kingdom
2.Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,China
3.Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications,University of Thessaly,Lamia,Greece
4.Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering and Research Institute for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems,Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech),Shenzhen,China

Diamantopoulos，Georgios,Bahsoon，Rami,Tziritas，Nikos,et al. SymBChainSim: A Novel Simulation Tool for Dynamic and Adaptive Blockchain Management and its Trilemma Tradeoff[C]. 1601 Broadway, 10th Floor, NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES:ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY,2023.