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Consensus is becoming increasingly important in wireless networks. Partially synchronous BFT consensus, a significant branch of consensus, has made considerable progress in wired networks. However, its implementation in wireless networks,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shuo Liu , Minghui Xu , Yuezhou Zheng , Yifei Zou , Wangjie Qiu , Gang Qu , Xiuzhen Cheng

We present ChonkyBFT, a partially-synchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol used in the ZKsync system. The proposed protocol is a hybrid protocol inspired by FAB Paxos, Fast-HotStuff, and HotStuff-2. It is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Bruno França , Denis Kolegov , Igor Konnov , Grzegorz Prusak

The wireless blockchain network (WBN) concept, born from the blockchain deployed in wireless networks, has appealed to many network scenarios. Blockchain consensus mechanisms (CMs) are key to enabling nodes in a wireless network to achieve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Haoxiang Luo , Qianqian Zhang , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

Classic Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols forfeit liveness in the face of asynchrony in order to preserve safety, whereas most deployed blockchain protocols forfeit safety in order to remain live. In this work, we achieve the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Alistair Stewart , Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogia

This paper considers the good-case latency of Byzantine Reliable Broadcast (BRB), i.e., the time taken by correct processes to deliver a message when the initial sender is correct. This time plays a crucial role in the performance of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Timothé Albouy , Davide Frey , Michel Raynal , François Taïani

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

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

Modern chained Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) systems leverage a combination of pipelining and leader rotation to obtain both efficiency and fairness. These protocols, however, require a sequence of three or four consecutive honest leaders…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Ittai Abraham , Natacha Crooks , Neil Giridharan , Heidi Howard , Florian Suri-Payer

There is surge of interest to the blockchain technology not only in the scientific community but in the business community as well. Proof of Work (PoW) and Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) are the two main classes of consensus protocols that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Costas Busch

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

First-generation blockchains provide probabilistic finality: a block can be revoked, albeit the probability decreases as the block sinks deeper into the chain. Recent proposals revisited committee-based BFT consensus to provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Lăcrămioara Aştefanoaei , Pierre Chambart , Antonella Del Pozzo , Thibault Rieutord , Sara Tucci , Eugen Zălinescu

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

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that has applications in many domains such as cryptocurrency, smart contracts, supply chain management, and many others. Distributed consensus is a fundamental component of blockchain systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Siamak Abdi , Giuseppe Di Fatta , Atta Badii , Giancarlo Fortino

This paper introduces a new asynchronous Byzantine-tolerant asset transfer system (cryptocurrency) with three noteworthy properties: quasi-anonymity, lightness, and consensus-freedom. Quasi-anonymity means no information is leaked regarding…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Timothé Albouy , Emmanuelle Anceaume , Davide Frey , Mathieu Gestin , Arthur Rauch , Michel Raynal , François Taïani

Approximate byzantine consensus is a fundamental problem of distributed computing. This paper presents a novel algorithm for approximate byzantine consensus, called Relay-ABC. The algorithm allows machines to achieve approximate consensus…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Matthew Ding

This paper introduces Carbon, a high-throughput system enabling asynchronous (safe) and consensus-free (efficient) payments and votes within a dynamic set of clients. Carbon is operated by a dynamic set of validators that may be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Martina Camaioni , Rachid Guerraoui , Jovan Komatovic , Matteo Monti , Pierre-Louis Roman , Manuel Vidigueira , Gauthier Voron

The connected and autonomous systems (CAS) and auto-driving era is coming into our life. To support CAS applications such as AI-driven decision-making and blockchain-based smart data management platform, data and message…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Huanyu Wu , Chentao Yue , Lei Zhang , Yonghui Li , Muhammad Ali Imran

This paper introduces Nemo-Nemo, a practical crash-fault tolerant (CFT) consensus protocol designed to outperform existing protocols in wide-area networks by bridging design principles from the CFT and Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) worlds.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Rithwik Kerur , Pasindu Tennage , Philipp Jovanovic , Dahlia Malkhi , Alberto Sonnino , Igor Zablotchi

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

Asynchronous Byzantine Atomic Broadcast (ABAB) promises simplicity in implementation as well as increased performance and robustness in comparison to partially synchronous approaches. We adapt the recently proposed DAG-Rider approach to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Marc Leinweber , Hannes Hartenstein