Boon Thau Loo

FlexChain

2022 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

While permissioned blockchains enable a family of data center applications, existing systems suffer from imbalanced loads across compute and memory, exacerbating the underutilization of cloud resources. This paper presents FlexChain , a novel permissioned blockchain …

Saguaro: An Edge Computing-Enabled Hierarchical Permissioned Blockchain

2023

We present Saguaro, a permissioned blockchain system designed specifically for edge computing networks. Saguaro leverages the hierarchical structure of edge computing networks to reduce the overhead of wide-area communication by presenting several techniques. First, Saguaro …