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most citedBlockchain Consensus Protocols in the Wild

257 citations · 261 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CR2022

Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast

Sarah Azouvi, Christian Cachin, Duc V. Le +2

Blockchain protocols implement total-order broadcast in a permissionless setting, where processes can freely join and leave. In such a setting, to safeguard against Sybil attacks,…

cs.DC20221 cited

State-Machine Replication Scalability Made Simple (Extended Version)

Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Matej Pavlovic, Marko Vukolić

Consensus, state-machine replication (SMR) and total order broadcast (TOB) protocols are notorious for being poorly scalable with the number of participating nodes. Despite the rec…

cs.CR2020

Multi-Shard Private Transactions for Permissioned Blockchains

Elli Androulaki, Angelo De Caro, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui +3

Traditionally, blockchain systems involve sharing transaction information across all blockchain network participants. Clearly, this introduces barriers to the adoption of the techn…

cs.DC20202 cited

On the Interoperability of Decentralized Exposure Notification Systems

Marko Vukolic

This report summarizes the requirements and proposes a high-level solution for interoperability across recently proposed COVID-19 exposure notification efforts. Our focus is on int…

cs.DC20191 cited

Can 100 Machines Agree?

Rachid Guerraoui, Jad Hamza, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi +1

Agreement protocols have been typically deployed at small scale, e.g., using three to five machines. This is because these protocols seem to suffer from a sharp performance decay.…

cs.DC2019

Mir-BFT: High-Throughput Robust BFT for Decentralized Networks

Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Tudor David, Matej Pavlovic +1

This paper presents Mir-BFT, a robust Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) total order broadcast protocol aimed at maximizing throughput on wide-area networks (WANs), targeting deploymen…