TY - GEN
T1 - The Devil Hides in the Model
T2 - 4th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications, BLOCKCHAIN 2022
AU - Durand, Antoine
AU - Memmi, Gérard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Recent advances in blockchains and Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocols have been numerous and varied in nature. However, making a fair and consistent comparison of existing protocols is a difficult task that must begin right at the execution model. In this work, we undergo a review of several prominent blockchain protocols including their models, i.e., network synchrony, cryptographic assumptions, corruption, as well as latency and communication cost figures. This review illustrates the issues that can arise due to the lack of standardization on blockchain terminology. For example, we show that in two prominent blockchain protocols, seemingly minor technical details in the formulation leads to the execution model being strictly different from the intended one.
AB - Recent advances in blockchains and Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocols have been numerous and varied in nature. However, making a fair and consistent comparison of existing protocols is a difficult task that must begin right at the execution model. In this work, we undergo a review of several prominent blockchain protocols including their models, i.e., network synchrony, cryptographic assumptions, corruption, as well as latency and communication cost figures. This review illustrates the issues that can arise due to the lack of standardization on blockchain terminology. For example, we show that in two prominent blockchain protocols, seemingly minor technical details in the formulation leads to the execution model being strictly different from the intended one.
KW - Benchmark
KW - Blockchain
KW - Complexity
KW - Distributed ledger technology
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85148710068
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-21229-1_22
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-21229-1_22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148710068
SN - 9783031212284
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 237
EP - 248
BT - Blockchain and Applications, 4th International Congress
A2 - Prieto, Javier
A2 - Benítez Martínez, Francisco Luis
A2 - Ferretti, Stefano
A2 - Arroyo Guardeño, David
A2 - Tomás Nevado-Batalla, Pedro
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 13 July 2022 through 15 July 2022
ER -