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This paper presents IBFT, a simple and elegant Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithm that is used to implement state machine replication in the \emph{Quorum} blockchain. IBFT assumes a partially synchronous communication model, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Henrique Moniz

Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) systems are considered by the systems research community to be state of the art with regards to providing reliability in distributed systems. BFT systems provide safety and liveness guarantees with reasonable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Nikos Chondros , Konstantinos Kokordelis , Mema Roussopoulos

The practical Byzantine fault tolerant (PBFT) consensus mechanism is one of the most basic consensus algorithms (or protocols) in blockchain technologies, thus its performance evaluation is an interesting and challenging topic due to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Fan-Qi Ma , Quan-Lin Li , Yi-Han Liu , Yan-Xia Chang

Blockchain technology offers a decentralized and secure method for storing and authenticating data, rendering it well-suited for various applications such as digital currencies, supply chain management, and voting systems. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mohammad R. Shakournia , Pooya Jamshidi , Hamid Reza Faragardi , Nasser Yazdani

Distributed ledgers are common in the industry. Some of them can use blockchains as their underlying infrastructure. A blockchain requires participants to agree on its contents. This can be achieved via a consensus protocol, and several BFT…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-11-13 J. D. Chan , Y. C. Tay , Brian R. Z. Yen

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

Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus exhibits higher throughput in comparison to Proof of Work (PoW) in blockchains. But BFT-based protocols suffer from scalability problems with respect to the number of replicas in the network. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Costas Busch , Golden Richard

With the continuous expansion of blockchain application scenarios, consortium chains have raised higher performance and security requirements for consensus mechanisms. Unlike public blockchains, consortium chains typically implement an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Wen Gao , Xinhong Hei , Yichuan Wang

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

Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus, a cornerstone of blockchain technology, has seen significant advancements. While existing BFT protocols ensure security guarantees, they often suffer from efficiency challenges, particularly under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Qingming Zeng , Mo Li , Ximing Fu , Chuanyi Liu , Hui Jiang

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 malicious attacks. A prominent solution in this direction is to…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Sajjad Rahnama , Suyash Gupta , Rohan Sogani , Dhruv Krishnan , Mohammad Sadoghi

Byzantine consensus is a critical component in many permissioned Blockchains and distributed ledgers. We propose a new paradigm for designing BFT protocols called DQBFT that addresses three major performance and scalability challenges that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Balaji Arun , Binoy Ravindran

Blockchain technology has been proposed as a new infrastructure technology for a wide variety of novel applications. Blockchains provide an immutable record of transactions, making them useful when business actors do not trust each other.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Joerg Evermann , Henry Kim

Traditional Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) state machine replication protocols assume a partial synchrony model, leading to a design where a leader replica drives the protocol and is replaced after a timeout. Recently, we witnessed a surge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Diogo S. Antunes , Afonso N. Oliveira , André Breda , Matheus Guilherme Franco , Henrique Moniz , Rodrigo Rodrigues

There is a resurgence of interest in Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems due to blockchains. However, leader-based BFT consensus protocols used by permissioned blockchains have limited scalability and robustness. To alleviate the leader…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Fangyu Gai , Jianyu Niu , Ivan Beschastnikh , Chen Feng , Sheng Wang

In this paper, we present BunchBFT Byzantine fault-tolerant state-machine replication for high performance and scalability. At the heart of BunchBFT is a novel design called the cluster-based approach that divides the replicas into clusters…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Salem Alqahtani , Murat Demirbas

This paper introduces MonadBFT, a novel Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol that advances both performance and robustness. MonadBFT is implemented as the consensus protocol in the Monad blockchain. As a HotStuff-family…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mohammad Mussadiq Jalalzai , Kushal Babel , Jovan Komatovic , Tobias Klenze , Sourav Das , Fatima Elsheimy , Mike Setrin , John Bergschneider , Babak Gilkalaye

Byzantine state-machine replication (SMR) ensures the consistency of replicated state in the presence of malicious replicas and lies at the heart of the modern blockchain technology. Byzantine SMR protocols often guarantee safety under all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Manuel Bravo , Gregory Chockler , Alexey Gotsman

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

We introduce FnF-BFT, a parallel-leader byzantine fault-tolerant state-machine replication protocol for the partially synchronous model with theoretical performance bounds during synchrony. By allowing all replicas to act as leaders and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Zeta Avarikioti , Lioba Heimbach , Roland Schmid , Laurent Vanbever , Roger Wattenhofer , Patrick Wintermeyer