Stable blockchain sharding under adversarial transaction generation

R Adhikari, C Busch, DR Kowalski - … of the 36th ACM Symposium on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Sharding is used to improve the scalability and performance of blockchain systems. We
investigate the stability of blockchain sharding, where transactions are continuously …

Sok: Scalability techniques for BFT consensus

C Berger, S Schwarz-Rüsch, A Vogel… - … on Blockchain and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advancement of blockchain systems, many recent research works have proposed
distributed ledger technology (DLT) that employs Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus …

Fast transaction scheduling in blockchain sharding

R Adhikari, C Busch, M Popovic - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.15015, 2024 - arxiv.org
Sharding is a promising technique for addressing the scalability issues of blockchain, and
this technique is especially important for IoT, edge, or mobile computing. It divides the $ n …

Fast-hotstuff: A fast and robust bft protocol for blockchains

MM Jalalzai, J Niu, C Feng, F Gai - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The HotStuff protocol is a recent breakthrough in Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus
that enjoys both responsiveness and linear view change by creatively adding a round to …

Lockless blockchain sharding with multiversion control

R Adhikari, C Busch - International Colloquium on Structural Information …, 2023 - Springer
Sharding is used to address the performance and scalability issues of the blockchain
protocols, which divides the overall transaction processing costs among multiple clusters of …

Proof of Carbon Reduction: A Novel Incentive Mechanism in Blockchain for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Construction

J Wang, X Li, C Chen, W Zhu - Building and Environment, 2025 - Elsevier
Blockchain technology has been introduced to tackle the data issues arising from
centralization in carbon management. However, current blockchain systems remain …

Crackle: A fast sector-based BFT consensus with sublinear communication complexity

H Xu, X Liu, C Zhang, W Wang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain systems widely employ Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols to ensure
consistency. Improving BFT protocols' throughput is crucial for large-scale blockchain …

Liveness Attacks On HotStuff: The Vulnerability Of Timer Doubling Mechanism

K Guo, K Hu, Z Zhang - The Computer Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols are essential in distributed computing.
Most partially synchronous BFT protocols proceed in views and rely on a view synchronizer …

Chained HotStuff Under Performance Attack

J Niu, M Wang, F Gai, MM Jalalzai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chained HotStuff is a state-of-the-art Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol for building
decentralized systems like blockchains. Although chained HotStuff has been wildly adopted …

Orthrus: Accelerating Multi-BFT Consensus through Concurrent Partial Ordering of Transactions

H Lyu, S **e, J Niu, I Beschastnikh, Y Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multi-Byzantine Fault Tolerant (Multi-BFT) consensus allows multiple consensus instances
to run in parallel, resolving the leader bottleneck problem inherent in classic BFT consensus …