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NimbleChain: Speeding up cryptocurrencies in general-purpose permissionless blockchains
Paulo Silva, Miguel Matos, João Barreto
Nakamoto's seminal work gave rise to permissionless blockchains -- as well as a wide range of proposals to mitigate their performance shortcomings. Despite substantial throughput a…
The quest for scaling BFT Consensus through Tree-Based Vote Aggregation
Ray Neiheiser, Miguel Matos, Luís Rodrigues
With the growing commercial interest in blockchain, permissioned implementations have received increasing attention. Unfortunately, existing BFT consensus protocols that are the ba…
Impact of Geo-distribution and Mining Pools on Blockchains: A Study of Ethereum
Paulo Silva, David Vavřička, João Barreto +1
Given the large adoption and economical impact of permissionless blockchains, the complexity of the underlying systems and the adversarial environment in which they operate, it is…
Kollaps: Decentralized and Dynamic Topology Emulation
Paulo Gouveia, João Neves, Carlos Segarra +4
The performance and behavior of large-scale distributed applications is highly influenced by network properties such as latency, bandwidth, packet loss, and jitter. For instance, a…
Optimal epidemic dissemination
Hugues Mercier, Laurent Hayez, Miguel Matos
We consider the problem of reliable epidemic dissemination of a rumor in a fully connected network of~ processes using push and pull operations. We revisit the random phone call…