4 papers
Breaking Fault Lines: Unifying TEE-Assisted BFT Consensus in Partially Trusted Worlds
Xiaoqing Wen, Tong Liu, Jianyu Niu +4
This paper revisits TEE-assisted BFT under a universal partial-TEE model, where an arbitrary subset of replicas execute inside TEEs while the remaining replicas operate without har…
HYDRA: Breaking the Global Ordering Barrier in Multi-BFT Consensus
Hanzheng Lyu, Shaokang Xie, Jianyu Niu +5
Multi-Byzantine Fault Tolerant (Multi-BFT) consensus, which runs multiple BFT instances in parallel, has recently emerged as a promising approach to overcome the leader bottleneck…
Arcturus: A Cloud Overlay Network for Global Accelerator with Enhanced Performance and Stability
Matthew Yang Liu, Chuang Chen, Pengcheng Lv +6
Global Accelerator (GA) services play a vital role in ensuring low-latency, high-reliability communication for real-time interactive applications. However, existing GA offerings ar…
Taming Imbalance and Complexity in WAN Traffic Engineering
Yufeng Xin, Sajith Sasidharam, Cong Wang +1
The rapid expansion of global cloud infrastructures, coupled with the growing volume and complexity of network traffic, has fueled active research into scalable and resilient Traff…