| Title | CoDAG: An Efficient and Compacted DAG-Based Blockchain Protocol |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Yang, Shu, Chen, Ziteng, Cui, Laizhong, Xu, Mingwei, Ming, Zhongxing, Xu, Ke |
| Conference Name | 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain) |
| Date Published | jul |
| Keywords | bitcoin, blockchain, blockchain platforms, blockchain protocol, blockchain security, CoDAG, compacted DAG structure, compacted directed acyclic graph, cryptography, decentralized characteristic, directed acyclic graph, directed acyclic graph structure, directed graphs, electronic money, ethereum, linear structure, Navigation, Protocols, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, Throughput, transaction demand, transaction processing, transaction verification time |
| Abstract | Blockchain is seen as a promising technology to provide reliable and secure services due to its decentralized characteristic. However, because of the limited throughput, current blockchain platforms can not meet the transaction demand in practical use. Though researchers proposed many new solutions, they suffered either decentralization or security issues. In this paper, using Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure, we improve the linear structure of traditional blockchain protocol. In the new structure, blocks are organized in levels and width, which will generate into a compacted DAG structure (CoDAG). To make CoDAG more efficient and secure, we design algorithms and protocols to place the new-generated blocks appropriately. Compared with traditional blockchain protocols, CoDAG improves the security and transaction verification time, and enjoys the consistency and liveness properties of blockchain. Taking adversary parties into consideration, two possible attack strategies are presented in this paper, and we further prove that CoDAG is a secure and robust protocol to resist them. The experimental results show that CoDAG can achieve 394 transactions per second, which is 56 times of Bitcoin's throughput and 26 times of Ethereum's. |
| DOI | 10.1109/Blockchain.2019.00049 |
| Citation Key | yang_codag_2019 |
CoDAG: An Efficient and Compacted DAG-Based Blockchain Protocol