The Bedrock of Byzantine Fault Tolerance: A Unified Platform for BFT Protocols Analysis, Implementation, and Experimentation

Authors: 

Mohammad Javad Amiri, Stony Brook University; Chenyuan Wu, University of Pennsylvania; Divyakant Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi, UC Santa Barbara; Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania; Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis
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Abstract: 

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) protocols cover a broad spectrum of design dimensions from infrastructure settings, such as the communication topology, to more technical features, such as commitment strategy and even fundamental social choice properties like order-fairness. The proliferation of different protocols has made it difficult to navigate the BFT landscape, let alone determine the protocol that best meets application needs. This paper presents Bedrock, a unified platform for BFT protocols analysis, implementation, and experimentation. Bedrock proposes a design space consisting of a set of dimensions and explores several design choices that capture the trade-offs between different design space dimensions. Within Bedrock, a wide range of BFT protocols can be implemented and uniformly evaluated under a unified deployment environment.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {295511,
author = {Mohammad Javad Amiri and Chenyuan Wu and Divyakant Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi and Boon Thau Loo and Mohammad Sadoghi},
title = {The Bedrock of Byzantine Fault Tolerance: A Unified Platform for {BFT} Protocols Analysis, Implementation, and Experimentation},
booktitle = {21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24)},
year = {2024},
isbn = {978-1-939133-39-7},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {371--400},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/amiri},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}

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