Since the advent of distributed ledger technologies, they have provided diverse
opportunities in a wide range of application domains. This article brings a comprehensive …

Over the past decade, blockchain technology has attracted a huge attention from both
industry and academia because it can be integrated with a large number of everyday …

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) protocols cover a broad spectrum of design dimensions from
infrastructure settings, such as the communication topology, to more technical features, such …

Recent years have seen Kubernetes emerge as a primary choice for container orchestration.
Kubernetes largely targets the cloud environment but new use cases require performant …

Strongly consistent replication helps keep application logic simple and provides significant
benefits for correctness and manageability. Unfortunately, the adoption of strongly …

Leader-based consensus algorithms are fast and efficient under normal conditions, but lack
robustness to adverse conditions due to their reliance on timeouts for liveness. We present …

Distributed protocols such as 2PC and Paxos lie at the core of many systems in the cloud,
but standard implementations do not scale. New scalable distributed protocols are …

The problem of distributed consensus has played a major role in the development of
distributed data management systems. This includes the development of distributed atomic …

Consensus-based replicated systems are complex, monolithic, and difficult to upgrade once
deployed. As a result, deployed systems do not benefit from innovative research, and new …

A distributed database utilizing the wide-spread edge computing servers to provide low-
latency data access with the serializability guarantee is highly desirable for emerging edge …