Abstract
Blockchain is an emerging technology for various business and industrial applications because of its characteristics like security, immutability, and transparency. But still, blockchain faces the main issue of scalability, which influences several factors such as throughput, which is defined as the number of transactions processed per second (tps), the limited size of the block, cost, and capacity (size of the blockchain) and latency. In this paper, a survey of literature on the various solutions for scalability issues, namely cashing, side chain, off chain, inter-chain, child chain, on chain, and also deep learning methods along with their pros and cons.
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Pawar, M.K., Patil, P., Hiremath, P.S. (2021). A Study on Blockchain Scalability. In: Tuba, M., Akashe, S., Joshi, A. (eds) ICT Systems and Sustainability. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1270. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8289-9_29
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