Bedrock of BFT
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 project presents 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.
Publications
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Mohammad Javad Amiri, Chenyuan Wu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Boon Thau Loo, and Mohammad Sadoghi. “The bedrock of byzantine fault tolerance: A unified platform for BFT protocols analysis, implementation, and experimentation.” USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2024.
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Haoyun Qin, Chenyuan Wu, Mohammad Javad Amiri, Ryan Marcus, and Boon Thau Loo. “BFTGym: an interactive playground for BFT protocols.” Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 17, 2024.
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Mohammad Javad Amiri, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Boon Thau Loo. “Distributed Transaction Processing in Untrusted Environments [tutorial].” ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2024.
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Suyash Gupta, Mohammad Javad Amiri, Mohammad Sadoghi. “Chemistry behind Agreement.” Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2023.
People
Haoyun Qin
Chenyuan Wu
Amr El Abbadi
Divyakant Agrawal
Boon Thau Loo
