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Blockchain Interoperability: Performance and Security Trade-Offs

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Kamanashis Biswas,

Vallipuram MuthukkumarasamyAuthors Info & Claims

SenSys '22: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Pages 1196 - 1201

https://doi.org/10.1145/3560905.3568176

Published: 24 January 2023 Publication History

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Blockchain technology is becoming a promising technological solution for enterprise applications with the rise of interoperable solutions. A cross-chain architecture facilitates interoperability, thus improves its chain efficiency, reduces fragmentation, and allows users and features to flow more freely across multiple blockchains. However, enabling interoperability in silo networks will make a significant functional trade-off on the security and performance of the system. This paper review trade-offs in blockchain technologies related to interoperability.

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Index Terms

Blockchain Interoperability: Performance and Security Trade-Offs
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
    1. Redundancy
  2. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
2. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network security

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