Over the Internet today, computing and communications environments are significantly more
complex and chaotic than classical distributed systems, lacking any centralized organization …

One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

While showing great promise, Bitcoin requires users to wait tens of minutes for transactions
to commit, and even then, offering only probabilistic guarantees. This paper introduces …

This paper introduces federated Byzantine agreement (FBA), a new approach to consensus.
FBA's robustness stems from quorum slices, individual trust decisions made by each node …

The secret keys of critical network authorities--such as time, name, certificate, and software
update services--represent high-value targets for hackers, criminals, and spy agencies …

International payments are slow and expensive, in part because of multi-hop payment
routing through heterogeneous banking systems. Stellar is a new global payment network …

Cluster computing applications like MapReduce and Dryad transfer massive amounts of
data between their computation stages. These transfers can have a significant impact on job …

This paper presents DONet, a data-driven overlay network for live media streaming. The
core operations in DONet are very simple: every node periodically exchanges data …

We propose a new scheme for content distribution of large files that is based on network
coding. With network coding, each node of the distribution network is able to generate and …

We describe PeerReview, a system that provides accountability in distributed systems.
PeerReview ensures that Byzantine faults whose effects are observed by a correct node are …