From f04515da8f66e1c0a00b09a57fe42e0409271459 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincenzo Di Perna <56477809+vindipe@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:02:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 01/25] feat: add PhD thesis research page --- .../research/comparing-blockchains.astro | 360 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 360 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/pages/research/comparing-blockchains.astro diff --git a/src/pages/research/comparing-blockchains.astro b/src/pages/research/comparing-blockchains.astro new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69aeea3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pages/research/comparing-blockchains.astro @@ -0,0 +1,360 @@ +--- +import BaseLayout from "../../layouts/BaseLayout.astro"; + +const thesisPdf = "/theses/phd-thesis-comparing-blockchains.pdf"; +const unicamRecord = + "https://pubblicazioni.unicam.it/handle/11581/502950?mode=complete"; + +const evaluationDimensions = [ + { + title: "Performance efficiency", + text: "Topology-aware measurements of throughput, commit ratio, and confirmation latency under controlled workloads and deployment conditions.", + }, + { + title: "Energy efficiency", + text: "Node- and system-level energy measurements, including energy per committed transaction and the effect of network structure and workload intensity.", + }, + { + title: "Repeatability and predictability", + text: "Multi-run analysis of dispersion, worst-case deviations, variance sources, and the stability of performance expectations across configurations.", + }, + { + title: "Economic efficiency", + text: "An entropy-based approach that aggregates heterogeneous on-chain indicators into an interpretable measure of ecosystem balance.", + }, +]; + +const contributions = [ + "Lilith, a system-agnostic benchmarking framework that combines workload generation, deterministic orchestration, resource control, and network emulation.", + "A topology-controlled comparison of five blockchain systems under realistic transfer and smart-contract workloads.", + "An energy evaluation that relates network topology and workload conditions to total energy use and energy per committed transaction.", + "A network-controlled, multi-run methodology and public dataset for studying experimental repeatability and performance predictability.", + "The Entropy Balance index (EB-index), which combines heterogeneous on-chain indicators into a single economic-efficiency score.", +]; + +const relatedWorks = [ + { + title: "Impact of Network Topologies on Blockchain Performance", + badge: "ACM DEBS '25", + href: "/research/topology-aware-blockchain-benchmarking", + text: "Topology-aware performance benchmarking and the Lilith experimental methodology.", + }, + { + title: "Blockchain Energy Consumption: Unveiling the Impact of Network Topologies", + badge: "IEEE ICBC '25", + href: "/research/performance-energy-economic-efficiency", + text: "Energy consumption and energy per transaction under controlled network topologies.", + }, + { + title: "An Entropy-Based Approach to Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Cryptocurrencies", + badge: "DLT '25", + href: "/research/entropy-based-economic-efficiency", + text: "The entropy-based economic-efficiency model developed into the EB-index.", + }, + { + title: "Lilith – A Topology-Aware Blockchain Benchmarking Framework", + badge: "Artifact", + href: "/research/lilith-benchmarking-framework", + text: "The public framework and reproducibility material supporting the experimental work.", + }, +]; + +const structuredData = { + "@context": "https://schema.org", + "@type": "CreativeWork", + name: "Comparing Blockchains: Performance, Energy, and Economic Efficiencies", + genre: "Doctoral dissertation", + inLanguage: "en", + datePublished: "2026-06-23", + author: { + "@type": "Person", + name: "Vincenzo P. Di Perna", + url: "https://vindipe.github.io/", + }, + publisher: { + "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity", + name: "Università degli Studi di Camerino", + }, + educationalLevel: "Doctoral degree", + url: "https://vindipe.github.io/research/comparing-blockchains", + sameAs: unicamRecord, + associatedMedia: { + "@type": "MediaObject", + contentUrl: `https://vindipe.github.io${thesisPdf}`, + encodingFormat: "application/pdf", + }, + about: [ + "Blockchain benchmarking", + "Network topology", + "Energy consumption", + "Experimental repeatability", + "Performance predictability", + "Cryptocurrency economic efficiency", + ], +}; +--- + + +