3 papers
cs.DC2026
Angelfish: Leader, DAG, or Anywhere in Between
Qianyu Yu, Giuliano Losa, Nibesh Shrestha +1
To maximize performance, many modern blockchain systems rely on eventually-synchronous, Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols. Two protocol designs have emerged in thi…
cs.DC2026
Optimistic, Signature-Free Reliable Broadcast and Its Applications
Nibesh Shrestha, Qianyu Yu, Aniket Kate +3
Reliable broadcast (RBC) is a key primitive in fault-tolerant distributed systems, and improving its efficiency can benefit a wide range of applications. This work focuses on signa…
cs.DC2024
Moonshot: Optimizing Chain-Based Rotating Leader BFT via Optimistic Proposals
Isaac Doidge, Raghavendra Ramesh, Nibesh Shrestha +1
Existing chain-based rotating-leader BFT SMR protocols for the partially synchronous network model with constant commit latencies incur block periods of at least (where …