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Multimmit: Extending Blocks for Faster Finality
Andrew Lewis-Pye, Patrick O'Grady
To meet the throughput demands of modern blockchain systems, protocols for State Machine Replication (SMR) increasingly have many processors disseminate blocks of transactions in p…
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The Carnot Bound: Limits and Possibilities for Bandwidth-Efficient Consensus
Andrew Lewis-Pye, Patrick O'Grady
In leader-based State Machine Replication (SMR), the leader's outgoing bandwidth is a natural throughput bottleneck. Erasure coding can alleviate this by letting the leader send ea…