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DWBFT: A Weighted Byzantine Fault Tolerant Protocol with Decentralized Trust

  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Peng Cheng Laboratory

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Abstract

The surprising wave of blockchain has led to rapid progress of Byzantine fault tolerant protocol. However, most researches concentrate on the centralized trust such as PBFT, in which all participants trust each other equally. This paper presents DWBFT, a weighted Byzantine fault tolerant protocol with decentralized trust under the weak synchrony assumption. In DWBFT, the nodes can assign weights to each other depending on their decentralized trust relationship, which are adopted to make decisions. DWBFT can achieve safety under the condition that the weight of Byzantine nodes is less than 1/5 of the total weight of all nodes under any weight assignment. The experimental results show that DWBFT can achieve a throughput of nearly 13,000 tps under 32 nodes, and has no significant performance degradation compared with PBFT.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5384-5390
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781538683477
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2022 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 16 May 202220 May 2022

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2022
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period16/05/2220/05/22

Keywords

  • blockchain
  • de-centralized trust
  • weighted Byzantine fault tolerant protocol

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