Performance Evaluation of Ethereum Private and Testnet Networks Using Hyperledger Caliper

Since Bitcoin was launched, the blockchain technology and the cryptocurrencies have been in the spotlight. Ethereum, the second-generation blockchain introduced smart contracts, and many DApps have emerged due to them. Those DApps showed the feasibility of blockchain in various industries. However, even though the growth of blockchain technology, still many DApps are based on Ethereum, and supper its performance issue. Since the performance evaluation in Ethereum mainnet is almost impossible, and there are no formalized performance evaluation frameworks, it is hard to perform appropriate performance evaluation of Ethereum. Detail performance evaluations on Ethereum networks are essential for developing and operating DApps. In this paper, we use Hyperledger Caliper, an automated performance evaluation framework to evaluate an Ethereum private network, and the Ropsten testnet to overcome above problems. We evaluate the performance with a specific smart contract and analyze the results. Our evaluation results show that the Ethereum private network performs better than the Ropsten testnet, and the Ropsten testnet is unstable for performance evaluation. In addition, our results show that the performance of the transactions can differ following their content.