An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Consensus, and Future Trends

Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 6th International Congress on Big Data, BigData Congress 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 557-564

  Zheng, Zibin ^a   Xie, Shaoan ^a   Dai, Hongning ^b   Chen, Xiangping ^a   Wang, Huaimin ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Blockchain; consensus; decentralization; scalability

Indexed keywords

INTERNET OF THINGS; SCALABILITY;

BLOCK-CHAIN; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; DECENTRALIZATION; FINANCIAL SERVICE; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); REPUTATION SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85019665012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BigDataCongress.2017.85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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