Title
A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools
Abstract
AbstractTo draw a roadmap of current research activities of the blockchain community, we first conduct a brief overview of state-of-the-art blockchain surveys published in the past 5 years. We found that those surveys are basically studying the blockchain-based applications, such as blockchain-assisted Internet of Things (IoT), business applications, security-enabled solutions, and many other applications in diverse fields. However, we think that a comprehensive survey toward the essentials of blockchains by exploiting the state-of-the-art theoretical modelings, analytic models, and useful experiment tools is still missing. To fill this gap, we perform a thorough survey by identifying and classifying the most recent high-quality research outputs that are closely related to the theoretical findings and essential mechanisms of blockchain systems and networks. Several promising open issues are also summarized for future research directions. We hope this survey can serve as a useful guideline for researchers, engineers, and educators about the cutting-edge development of blockchains in the perspectives of theories, modelings, and tools.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3441692
ACM Computing Surveys
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Blockchain, theoretical modelings, analytic models, experiment tools
Journal
54
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0360-0300
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
105
5
Search Limit
100105
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huawei Huang122328.55
Wei Kong240.49
Sicong Zhou381.22
Zibin Zheng43731199.37
Song Guo53431278.71