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20122023
most citedAWARE: Adaptive Wide-Area Replication for Fast and Resilient Byzantine Consensus

31 citations · 37 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.DC2023★ 2 cited

Chasing the Speed of Light: Low-Latency Planetary-Scale Adaptive Byzantine Consensus

Christian Berger, Lívio Rodrigues, Hans P. Reiser +2

Blockchain technology sparked renewed interest in planetary-scale Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR). While recent works predominantly focused on improv…

cs.DC2023

SoK: Scalability Techniques for BFT Consensus

Christian Berger, Signe Schwarz-Rüsch, Arne Vogel +4

With the advancement of blockchain systems, many recent research works have proposed distributed ledger technology~(DLT) that employs Byzantine fault-tolerant~(BFT) consensus proto…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

SmartKex: Machine Learning Assisted SSH Keys Extraction From The Heap Dump

Christofer Fellicious, Stewart Sentanoe, Michael Granitzer +1

Digital forensics is the process of extracting, preserving, and documenting evidence in digital devices. A commonly used method in digital forensics is to extract data from the mai…

cs.DC2022★ 1 cited

Simulating BFT Protocol Implementations at Scale

Christian Berger, Sadok Ben Toumia, Hans P. Reiser

The novel blockchain generation of Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) protocols focuses on scalability and performance to meet requirements of distribut…

cs.DC2022

Automatic Integration of BFT State-Machine Replication into IoT Systems

Christian Berger, Hans P. Reiser, Franz J. Hauck +2

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) can preserve the availability and integrity of IoT systems where single components may suffer from random data corruption or attacks that can expose…

cs.DC2021

Evaluating Blockchain Application Requirements and their Satisfaction in Hyperledger Fabric

Sadok Ben Toumia, Christian Berger, Hans P. Reiser

Blockchain applications may offer better fault-tolerance, integrity, traceability and transparency compared to centralized solutions. Despite these benefits, few businesses switch…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

A Survey on Resilience in the IoT: Taxonomy, Classification and Discussion of Resilience Mechanisms

Christian Berger, Philipp Eichhammer, Hans P. Reiser +3

Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems tend to grow both in scale and complexity as they consist of a variety of heterogeneous devices, which span over multiple architectural IoT laye…

cs.DC2021

Making Reads in BFT State Machine Replication Fast, Linearizable, and Live

Christian Berger, Hans P. Reiser, Alysson Bessani

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) is a seminal state machine replication protocol that achieves a performance comparable to non-replicated systems in realistic environment…

cs.DC2020★ 31 cited

AWARE: Adaptive Wide-Area Replication for Fast and Resilient Byzantine Consensus

Christian Berger, Hans P. Reiser, João Sousa +1

With upcoming blockchain infrastructures, world-spanning Byzantine consensus is getting practical and necessary. In geographically distributed systems, the pace at which consensus…

cs.DC2017

Analysis of Static and Dynamic Configurability of Existing Group Communication Systems

Johannes Köstler, Hans P. Reiser

Active replication following the state machine replication (SMR) approach is a way to make existing systems and services more reliable and fault-tolerant. The additional communicat…

cs.CR2012

SecureSMART: A Security Architecture for BFT Replication Libraries

Benedikt Höfling, Hans P. Reiser

Several research projects have shown that Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) is practical today in terms of performance. Deficiencies in other aspects might still be an obstacle to a…