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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

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

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) has been studied for over 30 years. Recently it has received more attention due to its application in permissioned blockchain systems. A sequence of research efforts focuses on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ittai Abraham , Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren , Zhuolun Xiang

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

Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols have garnered significant attention with the rise of blockchain technology. A typical asynchronous protocol is designed by executing sequential instances of the Asynchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Xiaohai Dai , Chaozheng Ding , Wei Li , Jiang Xiao , Bolin Zhang , Chen Yu , Albert Y. Zomaya , Hai Jin

This paper describes BigBFT, a multi-leader Byzantine fault tolerance protocol that achieves high throughput and scalable consensus in blockchain systems. BigBFT achieves this by (1) enabling every node to be a leader that can propose and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Salem Alqahtani , Murat Demirbas

Arma is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus system designed to achieve linear scalability across all hardware resources: network bandwidth, CPU, and disk I/O. As opposed to preceding BFT protocols, Arma separates the dissemination…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yacov Manevich

Byzantine fault-tolerant systems have been researched for more than four decades, and although shown possible early, the solutions were impractical for a long time. With PBFT the first practical solution was proposed in 1999 and spawned new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Thomas Loruenser , Benjamin Rainer , Florian Wohner

PermitBFT establishes a permissioned byzantine ledger in the partially synchronous networking model. For n replicas, PermitBFT tolerates up to f < n/3 byzantine replicas. It is the first BFT protocol to achieve a latency of just 2 message…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Roland Schmid , Roger Wattenhofer

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

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

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

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

To improve the overall efficiency and reliability of Byzantine protocols in large sparse networks, we propose a new system assumption for developing multi-scale fault-tolerant systems, with which several kinds of multi-scale Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Yulong Zhan

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

This paper presents LinBFT, a novel Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) protocol for blockchain systems that achieves amortized O(n) communication volume per block under reasonable conditions (where n is the number of participants), while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Yin Yang

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

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 Tolerance (BFT) is one of the most challenging problems in Distributed Machine Learning (DML), defined as the resilience of a fault-tolerant system in the presence of malicious components. Byzantine failures are still…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Djamila Bouhata , Hamouma Moumen , Jocelyn Ahmed Mazari , Ahcène Bounceur

Achieving agreement among distributed parties is a fundamental task in modern systems, underpinning applications such as consensus in blockchains, coordination in cloud infrastructure, and fault tolerance in critical services. However, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Anton Paramonov , Roger Wattenhofer