Scalability is one of the main roadblocks to business adoption of blockchain systems. Despite recent intensive research on using sharding techniques to enhance the scalability of …
Recent developments in blockchain technology have inspired innovative new designs in resilient distributed and database systems. At their core, these blockchain applications …
Today's practical, high performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols operate in the partial synchrony model. However, existing protocols are inefficient when …
S Gupta, M Sadoghi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.11592, 2021 - arxiv.org
A blockchain is an append-only linked-list of blocks, which is maintained at each participating node. Each block records a set of transactions and their associated metadata …
Consensus, state machine replication (SMR) and total order broadcast (TOB) protocols are notorious for being poorly scalable with the number of participating nodes. Despite the …
Since the introduction of Bitcoin—the first widespread application driven by blockchain—the interest of the public and private sectors in blockchain has skyrocketed. In recent years …
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) protocols cover a broad spectrum of design dimensions from infrastructure settings, such as the communication topology, to more technical features, such …
S Rahnama, S Gupta, R Sogani, D Krishnan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The recent surge in federated data management applications has brought forth concerns about the security of underlying data and the consistency of replicas in the presence of …
F Nawab, M Sadoghi - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
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 …