A survey of blockchain consensus protocols

J Xu, C Wang, X Jia - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain consensus protocols have been a focus of attention since the advent of Bitcoin.
Although classic distributed consensus algorithms made significant contributions to the …

A systematic review of blockchain scalability: Issues, solutions, analysis and future research

AI Sanka, RCC Cheung - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain is an inspiring emerging technology that takes much attention from various
researchers and companies. The technology offers various benefits such as data security …

Solutions to scalability of blockchain: A survey

Q Zhou, H Huang, Z Zheng, J Bian - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain-based decentralized cryptocurrencies have drawn much attention and been
widely-deployed in recent years. Bitcoin, the first application of blockchain, achieves great …

Monoxide: Scale out blockchains with asynchronous consensus zones

J Wang, H Wang - 16th USENIX symposium on networked systems …, 2019 - usenix.org
Cryptocurrencies have provided a promising infrastructure for pseudonymous online
payments. However, low throughput has significantly hindered the scalability and usability of …

Verifiable delay functions

D Boneh, J Bonneau, B Bünz, B Fisch - Annual international cryptology …, 2018 - Springer
We study the problem of building a verifiable delay function (VDF). A VDF VDF requires a
specified number of sequential steps to evaluate, yet produces a unique output that can be …

Omniledger: A secure, scale-out, decentralized ledger via sharding

E Kokoris-Kogias, P Jovanovic, L Gasser… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing a secure permissionless distributed ledger (blockchain) that performs on par with
centralized payment processors, such as Visa, is a challenging task. Most existing …

Towards scaling blockchain systems via sharding

H Dang, TTA Dinh, D Loghin, EC Chang, Q Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Existing blockchain systems scale poorly because of their distributed consensus protocols.
Current attempts at improving blockchain scalability are limited to cryptocurrency. Scaling …

Turbo-aggregate: Breaking the quadratic aggregation barrier in secure federated learning

J So, B Güler, AS Avestimehr - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated learning is a distributed framework for training machine learning models over the
data residing at mobile devices, while protecting the privacy of individual users. A major …

SBFT: A scalable and decentralized trust infrastructure

GG Gueta, I Abraham, S Grossman… - 2019 49th Annual …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SBFT is a state of the art Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication system that
addresses the challenges of scalability, decentralization and global geo-replication. SBFT is …