With rapid development of enabling technologies such as Internet of Things, robotics, and
big data, the fourth industrial revolution known as “Industry 4.0”(I4. 0) has become a great …

Blockchain can be used to build a peer-to-peer, secure, and smart transaction system. As a
horizontal technology that has changed several fields of industry, blockchain has …

Blockchain has found applications to track ownership of digital assets. Yet, several
blockchains were shown vulnerable to network attacks. It is thus crucial for companies to …

HoneyBadgerBFT, proposed by Miller et al.[34] as the first practical asynchronous atomic
broadcast protocol, demonstrated impressive performance. The core of HoneyBadgerBFT …

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 …

Despite recent progresses of practical asynchronous Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT)
consensus, the state-of-the-art designs still suffer from suboptimal performance. Particularly …

The emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT) based on a blockchain data structure
has given rise to new approaches to identity management that aim to upend dominant …

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 …

Decades of research in both cryptography and distributed systems has extensively studied
the problem of state machine replication, also known as Byzantine consensus. A consensus …

Consensus algorithms are applied in the context of distributed computer systems to improve
their fault tolerance. The explosive development of distributed ledger technology following …