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We introduce a structure for the directed acyclic graph (DAG) and a mechanism design based on that structure so that peers can reach consensus at large scale based on proof of work (PoW). We also design a mempool transaction assignment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Jiahao He , Guangju Wang , Guangyuan Zhang , Jiheng Zhang

A recent approach to building consensus protocols on top of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) shows much promise due to its simplicity and stable throughput. However, as each node in the DAG typically includes a linear number of references to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Michael Anoprenko , Andrei Tonkikh , Alexander Spiegelman , Petr Kuznetsov , Anatoliy Zinovyev , Konstantin Shprenger

In distributed systems with asymmetric trust, each participant is free to make its own trust assumptions about others, captured by an asymmetric quorum system. This contrasts with ordinary, symmetric quorum systems and threshold models,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ignacio Amores-Sesar , Christian Cachin , Simon Holmgaard Kamp , Juan Villacis

We propose a novel consensus protocol based on a hybrid approach, that combines a directed acyclic graph (DAG) and a classical chain of blocks. This architecture allows us to enforce collective block construction, minimising the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Marcin Abram , David Galindo , Daniel Honerkamp , Jonathan Ward , Jin-Mann Wong

This paper is a Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) on Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based consensus protocols, analyzing their performance and trade-offs within the framework of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance inspired by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Mayank Raikwar , Nikita Polyanskii , Sebastian Müller

Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based ledger and the corresponding consensus algorithm has been identified as a promising technology for Internet of Things (IoT). Compared with Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) that have been widely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Yixin Li , Bin Cao , Mugen Peng , Long Zhang , Lei Zhang , Daquan Feng , Jihong Yu

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

Several blockchain consensus protocols proposed to use of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) to solve the limited processing throughput of traditional single-chain Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains. Many such protocols utilize a random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Martin Perešíni , Ivan Homoliak , Federico Matteo Benčić , Martin Hrubý , Kamil Malinka

We present Bullshark, the first directed acyclic graph (DAG) based asynchronous Byzantine Atomic Broadcast protocol that is optimized for the common synchronous case. Like previous DAG-based BFT protocols, Bullshark requires no extra…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Alexander Spiegelman , Neil Giridharan , Alberto Sonnino , Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias

The feed-forward relationship naturally observed in time-dependent processes and in a diverse number of real systems -such as some food-webs and electronic and neural wiring- can be described in terms of so-called directed acyclic graphs…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Joaquín Goñi , Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Ricard V. Solé , Carlos Rodríguez-Caso

DAG-based protocols have been proposed as potential solutions to the latency and throughput limitations of traditional permissionless consensus protocols. However, their adoption has been hindered by security concerns and a lack of a solid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ignacio Amores-Sesar , Christian Cachin

Trustless systems, such as those blockchain enpowered, provide trust in the system regardless of the trust of its participants, who may be honest or malicious. Proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols and DAG-based approaches have emerged as a better…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Quan Nguyen , Andre Cronje , Michael Kong , Alex Kampa , George Samman

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a popular approach to achieve scalability of blockchain networks. Due to its high efficiency in data communication and great scalability, DAG has been widely adopted in many applications such as Internet of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Canhui Chen , Xu Chen , Zhixuan Fang

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are directed graphs in which there is no path from a vertex to itself. DAGs are an omnipresent data structure in computer science and the problem of counting the DAGs of given number of vertices and to sample…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Martin Pépin , Alfredo Viola

Quorum systems are a common way to formalize failure assumptions in distributed systems. Traditionally, these assumptions are shared by all involved processes. More recently, systems have emerged which allow processes some freedom in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Michael Senn , Christian Cachin

Quorum systems are a key abstraction in distributed fault-tolerant computing for capturing trust assumptions. They can be found at the core of many algorithms for implementing reliable broadcasts, shared memory, consensus and other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Orestis Alpos , Christian Cachin , Björn Tackmann , Luca Zanolini

Probabilistic graphical models are graphical representations of probability distributions. Graphical models have applications in many fields including biology, social sciences, linguistic, neuroscience. In this paper, we propose directed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-10 Ru Wang , Jie Peng

Learning a faithful directed acyclic graph (DAG) from samples of a joint distribution is a challenging combinatorial problem, owing to the intractable search space superexponential in the number of graph nodes. A recent breakthrough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Yue Yu , Jie Chen , Tian Gao , Mo Yu

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are central to uncovering causal structure in complex systems, yet learning a single DAG from data is often challenging: model uncertainty, finite samples, and a combinatorially large search space frequently…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Yunan Wu , Yue Wang , Chunlin Li , Chenglong Ye

DAG-based BFT consensus has attracted growing interest in distributed data management systems for consistent replication in untrusted settings due to its high throughput and resilience to asynchrony. However, existing protocols still suffer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shaokang Xie , Dakai Kang , Hanzheng Lyu , Jianyu Niu , Mohammad Sadoghi
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