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The Performance of Byzantine Fault Tolerant Blockchains

Shapiro, Gary
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Natoli, Christopher
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Gramoli, Vincent  
January 1, 2020
2020 Ieee 19Th International Symposium On Network Computing And Applications (Nca)
IEEE 19th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)

Blockchains have captured the attention of many, resulting in an abundance of new systems available for use. However, selecting an appropriate blockchain for an application is challenging due to the lack of comparative information discussing core metrics such as throughput, latency and scalability. Although a number of efforts have been devoted to performance evaluation, there is limited work dedicated to blockchains that are both efficient, due to avoiding complex Proof-of-Work cryptopuzzles, and secure, because they solve consensus deterministically despite Byzantine failures. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of three blockchains that cope with such malicious behaviors, namely Burrow, Quorum and Red Belly Blockchain. To this end, we modified the Hyperledger Caliper benchmark to solve three main limitations: unnecessary overheads, online cryptographic signatures and centralized clients. Our results identify the maximum send rate that Burrow and Quorum can process, and that Red Belly Blockchain can offer an 8-times higher throughput than the other blockchains.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/NCA51143.2020.9306742
Web of Science ID

WOS:000661912700009

Author(s)
Shapiro, Gary
Natoli, Christopher
Gramoli, Vincent  
Date Issued

2020-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2020 Ieee 19Th International Symposium On Network Computing And Applications (Nca)
ISBN of the book

978-1-7281-8326-8

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications

Subjects

blockchain

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benchmark

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byzantine fault tolerance

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performance

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IEEE 19th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)

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Nov 24-27, 2020

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July 17, 2021
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