A Range-Based Sharding (RBS) Protocol for Scalable Enterprise Blockchain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11006v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 23:09:38 GMT
• Title: A Range-Based Sharding (RBS) Protocol for Scalable Enterprise Blockchain
• Authors: M. Z. Haider, M. Dias de Assuncao, Kaiwen Zhang,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes the Range-Based Sharding Protocol, a novel sharding mechanism tailored for enterprise blockchains.<n>RBS achieves significantly higher throughput and lower latency compared to existing enterprise sharding frameworks.
• Score: 0.4941723903728161
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Blockchain technology offers decentralization and security but struggles with scalability, particularly in enterprise settings where efficiency and controlled access are paramount. Sharding is a promising solution for private blockchains, yet existing approaches face challenges in coordinating shards, ensuring fault tolerance with limited nodes, and minimizing the high overhead of consensus mechanisms like PBFT. This paper proposes the Range-Based Sharding (RBS) Protocol, a novel sharding mechanism tailored for enterprise blockchains, implemented on Quorum. Unlike traditional sharding models such as OmniLedger and non-sharding Corda framework, RBS employs a commit-reveal scheme for secure and unbiased shard allocation, ensuring fair validator distribution while reducing cross-shard transaction delays. Our approach enhances scalability by balancing computational loads across shards, reducing consensus overhead, and improving parallel transaction execution. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that RBS achieves significantly higher throughput and lower latency compared to existing enterprise sharding frameworks, making it a viable and efficient solution for largescale blockchain deployments.

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