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BEAT: Asynchronous BFT made practical

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Duan, S; Reiter, MK; Zhang, H

Published in: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

October 15, 2018

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.

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Author Michael Reiter Computer Science

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Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

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10.1145/3243734.3243812

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1543-7221

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October 15, 2018

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2028 / 2041

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Duan, S., Reiter, M. K., & Zhang, H. (2018). BEAT: Asynchronous BFT made practical. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 2028–2041). https://doi.org/10.1145/3243734.3243812

Duan, S., M. K. Reiter, and H. Zhang. “BEAT: Asynchronous BFT made practical.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2028–41, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3243734.3243812.

Duan S, Reiter MK, Zhang H. BEAT: Asynchronous BFT made practical. In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2018. p. 2028–41.

Duan, S., et al. “BEAT: Asynchronous BFT made practical.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2018, pp. 2028–41. Scopus, doi:10.1145/3243734.3243812.

Duan S, Reiter MK, Zhang H. BEAT: Asynchronous BFT made practical. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2018. p. 2028–2041.

Published In

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

DOI

10.1145/3243734.3243812

ISSN

1543-7221

Publication Date

October 15, 2018

Start / End Page

2028 / 2041