TY - GEN
T1 - BEAT
T2 - 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2018
AU - Duan, Sisi
AU - Reiter, Michael K.
AU - Zhang, Haibin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/10/15
Y1 - 2018/10/15
N2 - We present BEAT, a set of practical Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols for completely asynchronous environments. BEAT is flexible, versatile, and extensible, consisting of five asynchronous BFT protocols that are designed to meet different goals (e.g., different performance metrics, different application scenarios). Due to modularity in its design, features of these protocols can be mixed to achieve even more meaningful trade-offs between functionality and performance for various applications. Through a 92-instance, five-continent deployment of BEAT on Amazon EC2, we show that BEAT is efficient: roughly, all our BEAT instances significantly outperform, in terms of both latency and throughput, HoneyBadgerBFT, the most efficient asynchronous BFT known.
AB - We present BEAT, a set of practical Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols for completely asynchronous environments. BEAT is flexible, versatile, and extensible, consisting of five asynchronous BFT protocols that are designed to meet different goals (e.g., different performance metrics, different application scenarios). Due to modularity in its design, features of these protocols can be mixed to achieve even more meaningful trade-offs between functionality and performance for various applications. Through a 92-instance, five-continent deployment of BEAT on Amazon EC2, we show that BEAT is efficient: roughly, all our BEAT instances significantly outperform, in terms of both latency and throughput, HoneyBadgerBFT, the most efficient asynchronous BFT known.
KW - Asynchronous BFT
KW - BFT
KW - Blockchain
KW - Byzantine fault tolerance
KW - Robustness
KW - Threshold cryptography
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056878521&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3243734.3243812
DO - 10.1145/3243734.3243812
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056878521
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
SP - 2028
EP - 2041
BT - CCS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 15 October 2018
ER -