It is a critical part of increasing renewable energy accommodation by using virtual power
plant (VPP) to attain carbon neutrality. However, VPP applications primarily consider VPP's …

The problem of distributed consensus has played a major role in the development of
distributed data management systems. This includes the development of distributed atomic …

A blockchain has been applied in many areas, such as cryptocurrency, smart cities and
digital finance. The consensus protocol is the core part of the blockchain network, which …

This paper presents a high-performance consensus protocol, Nezha, which can be
deployed by cloud tenants without any support from their cloud provider. Nezha bridges the …

In order to solve the problems in the blockchain consensus algorithm such as slow
consensus speed, high resource consumption, and low consensus security due to excessive …

We study sleepy consensus in the known participation model, where replicas are aware of
the minimum number of awake honest replicas. Compared to prior works that almost all …

Application checkpointing is a widely used recovery mechanism that consists of saving an
application's state periodically to be used in case of a failure. In this study we investigate the …

This paper describes about the potential of blockchain consensus models to address
Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity challenges. Specifically, it investigates how blockchain …

Blockchain Technology (BCT), characterized by its decentralized and distributed ledger
structure, records transactions securely using cryptographic methods. As BCT continues to …

Paxos is one of the most popular protocols for state machine replication (a technique used
for making services highly available). We are the first to propose a Paxos-based state …