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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2017.2
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-86543
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2018/8654/
Burchert, Conrad ;
Wattenhofer, Roger
piChain: When a Blockchain meets Paxos
Abstract
We present a new fault-tolerant distributed state machine to inherit the best features of its “parents in spirit”: Paxos, providing strong consistency, and a blockchain, providing simplicity and availability. Our proposal is simple as it does not include any heavy weight distributed failure handling protocols such as leader election. In addition, our proposal has a few other valuable features, e.g., it is responsive, it scales well, and it does not send any overhead messages.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{burchert_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:8654,
author = {Conrad Burchert and Roger Wattenhofer},
title = {{piChain: When a Blockchain meets Paxos}},
booktitle = {21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2017)},
pages = {2:1--2:13},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-061-3},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {95},
editor = {James Aspnes and Alysson Bessani and Pascal Felber and Jo{\~a}o Leit{\~a}o},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8654},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-86543},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2017.2},
annote = {Keywords: Consensus, Crash Failures, Availability, Network Partition, Consistency}
}
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Consensus, Crash Failures, Availability, Network Partition, Consistency |
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21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2017) |
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2018 |
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28.03.2018 |
