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Asynchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, known for their robustness in unpredictable environments without relying on timing assumptions, are becoming increasingly vital for wireless applications. While these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shuo Liu , Minghui Xu , Tianyi Sun , Xiuzhen Cheng

This paper presents a partially synchronous BFT consensus protocol powered by BBCA, a lightly modified Byzantine Consistent Broadcast (BCB) primitive. BBCA provides a Complete-Adopt semantic through an added probing interface to allow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Dahlia Malkhi , Chrysoula Stathakopoulou , Maofan Yin

It is a common belief that Byzantine fault-tolerant solutions for consensus are significantly slower than their crash fault-tolerant counterparts. Indeed, in PBFT, the most widely known Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocol, it takes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Petr Kuznetsov , Andrei Tonkikh , Yan X Zhang

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

Numerous distributed tasks have to be handled in a setting where a fraction of nodes behaves Byzantine, that is, deviates arbitrarily from the intended protocol. Resilient, deterministic protocols rely on the detection of majorities to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Philipp Schneider

Blockmania is a byzantine consensus protocol. Nodes emit blocks forming a directed acyclic graph (block DAG) that is subsequently interpreted by each node separately to ensure consensus with safety, liveness and finality. The resulting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-26 George Danezis , David Hrycyszyn

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

We introduce Mysticeti-C, the first DAG-based Byzantine consensus protocol to achieve the lower bounds of latency of 3 message rounds. Since Mysticeti-C is built over DAGs it also achieves high resource efficiency and censorship resistance.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kushal Babel , Andrey Chursin , George Danezis , Anastasios Kichidis , Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias , Arun Koshy , Alberto Sonnino , Mingwei Tian

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) is a seminal state machine replication protocol that achieves a performance comparable to non-replicated systems in realistic environments. A reason for such high performance is the set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Christian Berger , Hans P. Reiser , Alysson Bessani

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

In this paper, we present a new BFT consensus mechanism which enables thousands of nodes to participate in the consensus process, and supports very high transaction throughput. This is achieved via an aggregated signature gossip protocol…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Jieyi Long , Ribao Wei

This paper presents DuoBFT, a Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol that uses trusted components to provide commit decisions in the Hybrid fault model in addition to commit decisions in the BFT model. By doing so, it enables the clients to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Balaji Arun , Binoy Ravindran

In this paper, we present Raptr--a Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication (BFT SMR) protocol that combines strong robustness with high throughput, while attaining near-optimal theoretical latency. Raptr delivers exceptionally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Andrei Tonkikh , Balaji Arun , Zhuolun Xiang , Zekun Li , Alexander Spiegelman

An urgent demand of deploying BFT consensus over the Internet is raised for implementing blockchain services. The deterministic (partial) synchronous protocols can be simple and fast in good network conditions, but are subject to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Yuan Lu , Zhenliang Lu , Qiang Tang

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

Existing Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) protocols face significant challenges in the consortium blockchain scenario. On the one hand, we can make little assumptions about the reliability and security of the underlying Internet. On the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Peilun Li , Guosai Wang , Xiaoqi Chen , Wei Xu

Recent research in consensus has often focussed on protocols for State-Machine-Replication (SMR) that can handle high throughputs. Such state-of-the-art protocols (generally DAG-based) induce undue overhead when the needed throughput is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Andrew Lewis-Pye , Ehud Shapiro

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) consensus is a fundamental primitive for distributed computation. However, BFT protocols suffer from the ordering manipulation, in which an adversary can make front-running. Several protocols are proposed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Guangren Wang , Liang Cai , Fangyu Gai , Jianyu Niu

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

Existing Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols address only threshold failures, where the participating nodes fail independently of each other, each one fails equally likely, and the protocol's guarantees follow from a simple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Orestis Alpos , Christian Cachin