A Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme Based on Network Sharding in Private Ethereum Blockchain

Abstract

Applications in the private Ethereum blockchain environment are required by many enterprises. Although, un-like public Ethereum platforms, private Ethereum platforms allow some specific parameters to be configured at setup time to increase throughput, its throughput performance is still not sufficient for enterprise-level applications due to the low scalability of the Ethereum blockchain. This paper analyzes and tests the throughput of the private Ethereum blockchain at the hardware level, and according to the analysis results, proposes a parallelized dynamic load balancing scheme based on network sharding. On this basis, various charts are created to visually show the impact of changing hardware parameters on performance, and experiments are conducted to verify that the model can further improve the performance of private Ethereum blockchains through effective load balancing.