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Baxos: Backing off for Robust and Efficient Consensus
Pasindu Tennage, Cristina Basescu, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias +3
Leader-based consensus algorithms are vulnerable to liveness and performance downgrade attacks. We explore the possibility of replacing leader election in Multi-Paxos with random e…
Economic Principles of PoPCoin, a Democratic Time-based Cryptocurrency
Haoqian Zhang, Cristina Basescu, Bryan Ford
While democracy is founded on the principle of equal opportunity to manage our lives and pursue our fortunes, the forms of money we have inherited from millenia of evolution has br…
SIBRA: Scalable Internet Bandwidth Reservation Architecture
Cristina Basescu, Raphael M. Reischuk, Pawel Szalachowski +5
This paper proposes a Scalable Internet Bandwidth Reservation Architecture (SIBRA) as a new approach against DDoS attacks, which, until now, continue to be a menace on today's Inte…