Caliper-in-the-Loop: Black-Box Optimization for Hyperledger Fabric Performance Tuning
Yash Madhwal, Arseny Bolotnikov, Mark Prikhno, Irina Lebedeva, Ivan Laishevskiy, Vladimir Gorgadze, Artem Barger, Yury Yanovich
Abstract
Hyperledger Fabric performance depends on many interacting configuration parameters, making manual tuning difficult. We study automated throughput tuning by treating benchmarking as a noisy black-box optimization problem and applying Bayesian optimization (BO) with dimensionality reduction (DR). We implement an end-to-end Caliper-in-the-loop pipeline that deploys candidate configurations, benchmarks them, and updates the optimizer from observed throughput. The search space, derived from Fabric configuration files, has 317 dimensions. In a cloud testbed, we evaluate 16 BO+DR variants and a random-search baseline. The best method, DYCORS-PCA, achieves a 12% TPS improvement relative to the first evaluated configuration, while MPI-REMBO achieves 9%. These results suggest that BO with DR is a practical approach for high-dimensional Hyperledger Fabric tuning, while also highlighting the role of measurement noise in interpreting gains.
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