Blockchain technology can solve the problem of trust in the open network in a decentralized
way. It has broad application prospects and has attracted extensive attention from academia …

Blockchain is an emerging decentralized and distributed technology. Along with the
beneficial features of decentralization, transparency, and security the consensus algorithms …

The surprising success of cryptocurrencies has led to a surge of interest in deploying large
scale, highly robust, Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) protocols for mission-critical applications …

Raft is a consensus algorithm for managing a replicated log. It produces a result equivalent
to (multi-) Paxos, and it is as efficient as Paxos, but its structure is different from Paxos; this …

This paper describes the design and implementation of Egalitarian Paxos (EPaxos), a new
distributed consensus algorithm based on Paxos. EPaxos achieves three goals:(1) optimal …

Recent developments in blockchain technology have inspired innovative new designs in
resilient distributed and database systems. At their core, these blockchain applications …

Various information retrieval (IR) based techniques have been proposed recently to locate
bugs automatically at the file level. However, their usefulness is often compromised by the …

Application programmers increasingly prefer distributed storage systems with strong
consistency and distributed transactions (eg, Google's Spanner) for their strong guarantees …

Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel
business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By …

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 …