A Taxonomy of Blockchain-Based Systems for Architecture Design

2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) Pub Date : 2017-04-03 DOI:10.1109/ICSA.2017.33

Xiwei Xu, I. Weber, M. Staples, Liming Zhu, J. Bosch, L. Bass, C. Pautasso, Paul Rimba

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Blockchain is an emerging technology for decentralised and transactional data sharing across a large network of untrusted participants. It enables new forms of distributed software architectures, where agreement on shared states can be established without trusting a central integration point. A major difficulty for architects designing applications based on blockchain is that thetechnology has many configurations and variants. Since blockchains are at an early stage, there is little product data or reliable technology evaluation available to compare different blockchains. In this paper, we propose how to classify and compare blockchains and blockchain-based systems to assist with the design and assessment of their impact on software architectures. Our taxonomy captures major architectural characteristics of blockchains and the impact of their principal design decisions. This taxonomy is intended to help with important architectural considerations about the performance and quality attributes of blockchain-based systems.

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基于区块链的体系结构设计系统分类

区块链是一种新兴技术，用于在不受信任的参与者的大型网络上共享分散和事务性数据。它支持新形式的分布式软件体系结构，在这种体系结构中，可以在不信任中央集成点的情况下建立共享状态的协议。架构师设计基于区块链的应用程序的一个主要困难是该技术有许多配置和变体。由于区块链处于早期阶段，很少有产品数据或可靠的技术评估可用于比较不同的区块链。在本文中，我们提出了如何对区块链和基于区块链的系统进行分类和比较，以帮助设计和评估它们对软件架构的影响。我们的分类法捕获了区块链的主要架构特征及其主要设计决策的影响。这种分类法旨在帮助解决关于基于区块链的系统的性能和质量属性的重要架构问题。

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