A comparative study on consensus mechanism with security threats and future scopes: Blockchain

AK Yadav, K Singh, AH Amin, L Almutairi… - Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, blockchain has emerged as a peer-to-peer (P2P) immutable distributed ledger
technology-based network, and its consensus mechanism is playing an important role in …

Pigpaxos: Devouring the communication bottlenecks in distributed consensus

A Charapko, A Ailijiang, M Demirbas - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Strongly consistent replication helps keep application logic simple and provides significant
benefits for correctness and manageability. Unfortunately, the adoption of strongly …

{IONIA}:{High-Performance} Replication for Modern Disk-based {KV} Stores

Y Xu, H Zhu, P Pandey, A Conway, R Johnson… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2024 - usenix.org
We introduce IONIA, a novel replication protocol tailored for modern SSD-based write-
optimized key-value (WO-KV) stores. Unlike existing replication approaches, IONIA carefully …

Scaling replicated state machines with compartmentalization

M Whittaker, A Ailijiang, A Charapko… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
State machine replication protocols, like MultiPaxos and Raft, are a critical component of
many distributed systems and databases. However, these protocols offer relatively low …

Exploiting nil-externality for fast replicated storage

A Ganesan, R Alagappan, AC Arpaci-Dusseau… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Do some storage interfaces enable higher performance than others? Can one identify and
exploit such interfaces to realize high performance in storage systems? This paper answers …

Odyssey: The impact of modern hardware on strongly-consistent replication protocols

V Gavrielatos, A Katsarakis, V Nagarajan - Proceedings of the Sixteenth …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Get/Put Key-Value Stores (KVSes) rely on replication protocols to enforce consistency and
guarantee availability. Today's modern hardware, with manycore servers and RDMA …

Read-write quorum systems made practical

M Whittaker, A Charapko, JM Hellerstein… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Quorum systems are a powerful mechanism for ensuring the consistency of replicated data.
Production systems usually opt for majority quorums due to their simplicity and fault …

Asynchronous Consensus Quorum Read: Pioneering Read Optimization for Asynchronous Consensus Protocols

H Dong, S Liu - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the era of cloud computing, the reliability and efficiency of distributed systems, particularly
in cloud-based databases and applications, are important. State Machine Replication …

Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization [Technical Report]

M Whittaker, A Ailijiang, A Charapko… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
State machine replication protocols, like MultiPaxos and Raft, are a critical component of
many distributed systems and databases. However, these protocols offer relatively low …

Linearizable low-latency reads at the edge

J Guarnieri, A Charapko - Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Edge computing enables moving data closer to users to reduce latency and improve user
experience. Edge data centers are capable and reliable enough to support various data …