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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…
Trees and Turtles: Modular Abstractions for State Machine Replication Protocols
Natalie Neamtu, Haobin Ni, Robbert van Renesse
We present two abstractions for designing modular state machine replication (SMR) protocols: trees and turtles. A tree captures the set of possible state machine histories, while a…
Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks
Adem Efe Gencer, Soumya Basu, Ittay Eyal +2
Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies have demonstrated how to securely implement traditionally centralized systems, such as currencies, in a decentralized fashion. However, there have…
Consus: Taming the Paxi
Robert Escriva, Robbert van Renesse
Consus is a strictly serializable geo-replicated transactional key-value store. The key contribution of Consus is a new commit protocol that reduces the cost of executing a transac…
Service-Oriented Sharding with Aspen
Adem Efe Gencer, Robbert van Renesse, Emin Gün Sirer
The rise of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies has led to an explosion of services using distributed ledgers as their underlying infrastructure. However, due to inherently single-se…
Moving Participants Turtle Consensus
Stavros Nikolaou, Robbert van Renesse
We present Moving Participants Turtle Consensus (MPTC), an asynchronous consensus protocol for crash and Byzantine-tolerant distributed systems. MPTC uses various moving target def…