@inproceedings{afa6129eb26b4ec58267316aff47d7e6,
title = "An Experimental Evaluation of BFT Protocols for Blockchains",
abstract = "Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols have been used in blockchains due to their high performance and fast block acceptance. However, their weakness is a lack of scalability to support a large number of nodes in the network due to message demanding broadcasts. There have been recent improvements to the classic Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant (PBFT) protocol. Evaluating the performance and reliability of the different BFT based protocols in the context of blockchains will give users a better picture of the behaviour and scalability of these protocols under different circumstances. For this purpose, we implemented and evaluated the performance of different BFT based protocols for blockchains under normal conditions as well as when byzantine failures are encountered in the network. Furthermore, we also calculated the reliability of each protocol under the desired throughput.",
keywords = "Blockchains consensus, Byzantine Fault Tolerant, Experimental evaluation, Reliability",
author = "Jalalzai, \{Mohammad M.\} and Golden Richard and Costas Busch",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 2nd International Conference on Blockchain, ICBC 2019, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2019 ; Conference date: 25-06-2019 Through 30-06-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-23404-1\_3",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030234034",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "34--48",
editor = "James Joshi and Surya Nepal and Qi Zhang and Liang-Jie Zhang",
booktitle = "Blockchain – ICBC 2019 - 2nd International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2019, Proceedings",
}