2 papers
cs.OS2026
Characterizing Metastable Faults and Failures
Ali Farahbakhsh, Qingjie Lu, Lorenzo Alvisi +2
Metastable failures are hard to detect, prevent, and mitigate. During a metastable failure, a system exhibits self-sustaining bad behavior even in the absence of adversarial condit…
cs.CR2026
Fast Deterministically Safe Proof-of-Work Consensus
Ali Farahbakhsh, Giuliano Losa, Youer Pu +2
Permissionless blockchains achieve consensus while allowing unknown nodes to join and leave the system at any time. They typically come in two flavors: proof of work (PoW) and proo…