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Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus forms the foundation of many modern blockchains striving for both high throughput and low latency. A growing bottleneck is transaction execution and validation on the critical path of consensus,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ignacio Amores-Sesar , Mirza Ahad Baig , Seth Gilbert , Ray Neiheiser , Michelle X. Yeo

LibraBFT is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol based on HotStuff. We present an abstract model of the protocol underlying HotStuff / LibraBFT, and formal, machine-checked proofs of their core correctness (safety) property…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Harold Carr , Christopher Jenkins , Mark Moir , Victor Cacciari Miraldo , Lisandra Silva

Byzantine general problem is the core problem of the consensus algorithm, and many protocols are proposed recently to improve the decentralization level, the performance and the security of the blockchain. There are two challenging issues…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Tzu-Wei Chao , Hao Chung , Po-Chun Kuo

In this paper, we present a Byzantine fault tolerant distributed commit protocol for transactions running over untrusted networks. The traditional two-phase commit protocol is enhanced by replicating the coordinator and by running a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wenbing Zhao

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) web services provide critical integrity guarantees for distributed applications but face significant latency challenges that hinder interactive user experiences. We propose a novel two-layer architecture that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ahmad Zaki Akmal , Azkario Rizky Pratama , Guntur Dharma Putra

Consensus is a fundamental building block for constructing reliable and fault-tolerant distributed services. Many Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols designed for partially synchronous systems adopt a pessimistic approach when…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Diogo Avelãs , Hasan Heydari , Eduardo Alchieri , Tobias Distler , Alysson Bessani

This paper presents LinSBFT, a Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocol with the capacity of processing over 2000 smart contract transactions per second in production. LinSBFT applies to a permissionless, public blockchain system, in which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Xiaodong Qi , Yin Yang , Zhao Zhang , Cheqing Jin , Aoying Zhou

The novel blockchain generation of Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) protocols focuses on scalability and performance to meet requirements of distributed ledger technology (DLT), e.g., decentralization and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Christian Berger , Sadok Ben Toumia , Hans P. Reiser

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) protocols have been proposed to tolerate malicious behaviors in state machine replications. With classic BFT protocols, the total number of replicas is known and fixed a priori. The resilience of BFT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jiangshan Yu

Multi-party data management and blockchain systems require data sharing among participants. To provide resilient and consistent data sharing, transactions engines rely on Byzantine FaultTolerant consensus (BFT), which enables operations…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Suyash Gupta , Jelle Hellings , Sajjad Rahnama , Mohammad Sadoghi

The parallel Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocol is viewed as a promising solution to address the consensus scalability issue of the permissioned blockchain. One of the main challenges in parallel BFT is the view change process that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yifei Xie , Btissam Er-Rahmadi , Xiao Chen , Tiejun Ma , Jane Hillston

Byzantine fault tolerant protocols enable state replication in the presence of crashed, malfunctioning, or actively malicious processes. Designing such protocols without the assistance of verification tools, however, is remarkably…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Joel Wanner , Laurent Chuat , Adrian Perrig

The popularization of blockchains leads to a resurgence of interest in Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) state machine replication protocols. However, much of the work on this topic focuses on the underlying consensus protocols, with emphasis…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Alysson Bessani , Eduardo Alchieri , João Sousa , André Oliveira , Fernando Pedone

Recent Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) protocols increasingly focus on scalability to meet the requirements of distributed ledger technology (DLT). Validating the performance of scalable BFT protocol…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Christian Berger , Sadok Ben Toumia , Hans P. Reiser

Low latency is one of the most desirable features of partially synchronous Byzantine consensus protocols. Existing low-latency protocols have achieved consensus with just two communication steps by reducing the maximum number of faults the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Chen Feng , Victoria Lemieux

With the advancement of blockchain technology, chained Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols have been increasingly adopted in practical systems, making their performance a crucial aspect of the study. In this paper, we introduce a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Yining Tang , Qihang Luo , Runchao Han , Jianyu Niu , Chen Feng , Yinqian Zhang

The rapid evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) environments has created an urgent need for secure and trustworthy distributed computing systems, particularly when dealing with heterogeneous devices and applications where centralized trust…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Murtaza Rangwala , Rajkumar Buyya

Most of the Blockchain permissioned systems employ Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT) consensus protocols to ensure that honest validators agree on the order for appending entries to their ledgers. In this paper, we study the performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Salem Alqahtani , Murat Demirbas

We present Carnot, a leader-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol that is responsive and operates under the partially synchronous model. Responsive BFT consensus protocols exhibit wire-speed operation and deliver…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Alexander Mozeika , Marcin P. Pawlowski , Ganesh Narayanaswamy

The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shlomi Dolev , Amit Hendin , Maurice Herlihy , Maria Potop Butucaru , Elad Michael Schiller