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This paper presents TetraBFT, a novel unauthenticated Byzantine fault tolerant protocol for solving consensus in partial synchrony, eliminating the need for public key cryptography and ensuring resilience against computationally unbounded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qianyu Yu , Giuliano Losa , Xuechao Wang

Recent developments in blockchain technology have inspired innovative new designs in resilient distributed and database systems. At their core, these blockchain applications typically use Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols to…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Suyash Gupta , Sajjad Rahnama , Jelle Hellings , Mohammad Sadoghi

It is a critical matter for a blockchain system whether a Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) can be guaranteed during a consensus process. Can connected vehicles (CVs) achieve the BFT consensus when the vehicles keep mobile? This paper seeks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Seungmo Kim , Byung-Jun Kim

Several research projects have shown that Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) is practical today in terms of performance. Deficiencies in other aspects might still be an obstacle to a more wide-spread deployment in real-world applications. One…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Benedikt Höfling , Hans P. Reiser

Distributed Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers aim to solve the issue of single-point-of-failure and improve the scalability of the control plane. Byzantine and faulty controllers, however, may enforce incorrect configurations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Ermin Sakic , Wolfgang Kellerer

Existing permissioned blockchains often rely on coordination-based consensus protocols to ensure the safe execution of applications in a Byzantine environment. Furthermore, these protocols serialize the transactions by ordering them into a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pezhman Nasirifard , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols for dynamically available systems face a critical challenge: balancing latency and security in fluctuating node participation. Existing solutions often require multiple rounds of voting per…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pengkun Ren , Hai Dong , Zahir Tari , Pengcheng Zhang

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) protocols play an important role in blockchains. As the deployment of such systems extends to wide-area networks, the scalability of BFT protocols becomes a critical concern. Optimizations that assign specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Hanish Gogada , Christian Berger , Leander Jehl , Hans P. Reiser , Hein Meling

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies rely on distributed consensus algorithms. In recent years many consensus algorithms and protocols have been proposed; most of them are for permissioned blockchain networks. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Shiv Sondhi , Sherif Saad , Kevin Shi , Mohammad Mamun , Issa Traore

This paper introduces a family of leaderless Byzantine fault tolerance protocols, built around a metastable mechanism via network subsampling. These protocols provide a strong probabilistic safety guarantee in the presence of Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Team Rocket , Maofan Yin , Kevin Sekniqi , Robbert van Renesse , Emin Gün Sirer

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems are able to maintain the availability and integrity of IoT systems, in presence of failure of individual components, random data corruption or malicious attacks. Fault-tolerant systems in general are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Marco Marcozzi , Orhan Gemikonakli , Eser Gemikonakli , Enver Ever , Leonardo Mostarda

Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant (BFT) systems are rapidly emerging as a viable technology for production-grade systems, notably in closed consortia deployments for nancial and supply-chain applications. Unfortunately, most algorithms proposed so…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Loïck Bonniot , Christoph Neumann , François Taïani

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), when managed by a few trusted validators, require most but not all of the machinery available in public DLTs. In this work, we explore one possible way to profit from this state of affairs. We devise…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Marco Benedetti , Francesco De Sclavis , Marco Favorito , Giuseppe Galano , Sara Giammusso , Antonio Muci , Matteo Nardelli

Within the last few years, a countless number of blockchain systems have emerged on the market, each one claiming to revolutionize the way of distributed transaction processing in one way or the other. Many blockchain features, such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ankur Sharma , Felix Martin Schuhknecht , Divya Agrawal , Jens Dittrich

We present a general consensus framework that allows to easily introduce a customizable Byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithm to an existing (Delegated) Proof-of-Stake blockchain. We prove the safety of the protocol under the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jan Hackfeld

Recently, the blockchain technique was put in the spotlight as it introduced a systematic approach for multiple parties to reach consensus without needing trust. However, the application of this technique in practice is severely restricted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Zhijie Ren , Kelong Cong , Johan Pouwelse , Zekeriya Erkin

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 replicas than Paxos-style protocols to prevent equivocation…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Suyash Gupta , Sajjad Rahnama , Shubham Pandey , Natacha Crooks , Mohammad Sadoghi

Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a flexible permissioned blockchain platform designed for business applications beyond the basic digital coin addressed by Bitcoin and other existing networks. A key property of HLF is its extensibility, and in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-21 João Sousa , Alysson Bessani , Marko Vukolić

Blockchain has been deemed as a promising solution for providing security and privacy protection in the next-generation wireless networks. Large-scale concurrent access for massive wireless devices to accomplish the consensus procedure may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Xin Xie , Cunqing Hua , Pengwenlong Gu , Wenchao Xu

In large distributed systems, failures are a daily event occurring frequently, especially with growing numbers of computation tasks and locations on which they are deployed. The advantage of representing an application with a workflow is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Alberto Mulone , Doriana Medić , Marco Aldinucci