Paper Info
Title
Scaling Byzantine Consensus - A Broad Analysis.
Abstract
Blockchains and distributed ledger technology (DLT) that rely on Proof-of-Work (PoW) typically show limited performance. Several recent approaches incorporate Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols in their DLT design as Byzantine consensus allows for increased performance and energy efficiency, as well as it offers proven liveness and safety properties. While there has been a broad variety of research on BFT consensus protocols over the last decades, those protocols were originally not intended to scale for a large number of nodes. Thus, the quest for scalable BFT consensus was initiated with the emerging research interest in DLT. In this paper, we first provide a broad analysis of various optimization techniques and approaches used in recent protocols to scale Byzantine consensus for large environments such as BFT blockchain infrastructures. We then present an overview of both efforts and assumptions made by existing protocols and compare their solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3284764.3284767
Middleware '18: 19th International Middleware Conference Rennes France December, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Scalability,Byzantine Fault Tolerance,Consensus,Blockchain,Distributed Ledger Technologies
Efficient energy use,Computer science,Byzantine architecture,Byzantine fault tolerance,Blockchain,Scaling,Distributed ledger,Liveness,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6110-1
2
0.46
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Berger1103.30
Hans P. Reiser216926.19