On availability for blockchain-based systems

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn 2017-September, Issue , 2017, Pages 64-73

  Weber, Ingo ^a,c   Gramoli, Vincent ^a,b   Ponomarev, Alex ^a   Staples, Mark ^a,c   Holz, Ralph ^a,b   Tran, An Binh ^a   Rimba, Paul ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

BLOCK-CHAIN; BROAD APPLICATION; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH RECORDS; READ AVAILABILITY; TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 85038107600     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SRDS.2017.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. S. Nakamoto, "Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, " 2008, http://www.bitcoin.org, last accessed 5/12/2016.
2. M. Walport, "Distributed ledger technology: Beyond blockchain, " UK Government Office for Science, report GS/16/1, 2016.
3. I. Weber, X. Xu, R. Riveret, G. Governatori, A. Ponomarev, and J. Mendling, "Untrusted business process monitoring and execution using blockchain, " in Intl. Conf. on BPM. Springer, Sep. 2016.
4. X. Xu, C. Pautasso, L. Zhu, V. Gramoli, A. Ponomarev, A. B. Tran, and S. Chen, "The blockchain as a software connector, " in WICSA2016, Venice, Italy, Apr. 2016.
5. V. Gramoli, "On the danger of private blockchains, " in Workshop on Distributed Cryptocurrencies and Consensus Ledgers (DCCL'16), 2016.
6. I. Eyal and E. G. Sirer, "Majority is not enough: Bitcoin mining is vulnerable, " in International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Springer, 2014, pp. 436-454.
7. C. Decker and R. Wattenhofer, "Information propagation in the Bitcoin network, " in Proc. IEEE Conf. peer-to-peer networks (P2P), 2013.
8. C. Natoli and V. Gramoli, "The blockchain anomaly, " in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'16), Oct 2016.
9. G. Wood, "Ethereum: A secure decentralised generalised transaction ledger, " 2015, yellow paper.
10. E. Brewer, "Towards robust distributed systems, " in Proc. 19th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), July 2000.
11. S. Gilbert and N. Lynch, "Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services, " ACM SIGACT News, vol. 33, pp. 51-59, 2002.
12. C. Cachin, "Blockchain-from the anarchy of cryptocurrencies to the enterprise, " in Proc. 20th Int'l Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), 2016, keynote presentation.
13. T. Crain, V. Gramoli, M. Larrea, and M. Raynal, "(leader/randomization/signature)-free byzantine consensus for consortium blockchains, " arXiv, Tech. Rep. 1702.03068, 2017.
14. C. Natoli and V. Gramoli, "The balance attack against proof-ofwork blockchains: The R3 testbed as an example, " arXiv, Tech. Rep. 1612.09426, 2016.
15. "The balance attack or why forkable blockchains are ill-suited for consortium, " in The 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'17). IEEE, Jun 2017.
16. Y. Sompolinsky and A. Zohar, "Secure high-rate transaction processing in bitcoin, " in Intl. Conf. Financial Cryptography and Data Security FC, 2015, pp. 507-527.
17. I. Eyal, A. E. Gencer, E. Sirer, and R. van Renesse, "Bitcoin-NG: A scalable blockchain protocol, " in USENIX NSDI, 2016.