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 …

The scalability problem has been one of the most significant barriers limiting the adoption of
blockchains. Blockchain sharding is a promising approach to this problem. However, the …

The growing interest in reliable multi-party applications has fostered widespread adoption of
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (bft) consensus protocols. Existing bft protocols need f more …

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based blockchain (aka distributed ledger) has become
prevalent for supporting highly concurrent applications. Its inherent parallel data structure …

Agreement protocols have been extensively used by distributed data management systems
to provide robustness and high availability. The broad spectrum of design dimensions …

Sharding is a prevailing solution to enhance the scalability of current blockchain systems.
However, the cross-shard commit protocols adopted in these systems to commit cross-shard …

The emergence of blockchain technology has renewed the interest in consensus-based
data management systems that are resilient to failures. To maximize the throughput of these …

With the advancement of blockchain systems, many recent research works have proposed
distributed ledger technology (DLT) that employs Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus …

Modern edge applications demand novel solutions where edge applications do not have to
rely on a single cloud provider (which cannot be in the vicinity of every edge device) or …

Private blockchain as a replicated transactional system shares many commonalities with
distributed database. However, the intimacy between private blockchain and deterministic …