Avaliação de Desempenho de Blockchains Permissionadas Hyperledger Orientada ao Planejamento de Capacidade de Recursos Computacionais

• Francisco A. Silva UFPI
• Glauber D. Gonçalves UFPI
• Iure fé UFPI
• Leonel Feitosa UFPI
• André Soares UFPI

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc.2023.415

Abstract

Hyperledger Fabric is a platform for permissioned blockchain networks that enables secure and auditable distributed data storage and access for enterprise applications. There is a growing interest in applications of this platform, but its use requires the configuration of a blockchain with different stages of request processing. The various possible configurations impact the non-functional qualities of the platform, especially performance and cost. This article proposes a Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) to model the performance of requests on the Hyperledger Fabric platform with different parameterizations for blockchain, computer capacity and request rates. We also present a study of the use of the model that serves as a practical guide to help administrators of permissioned blockchain networks to adapt their configurations, finding the best performance for applications. The model allowed, for example, to identify the block size that leads to an excessively high mean response time (ranging from 1 to 25 seconds) caused by high requests queuing.

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