Blizzard: A Distributed Consensus Protocol for Mobile Devices
Mehrdad Kiamari,
Bhaskar Krishnamachari,
Seokgu Yun
Abstract:We present Blizzard, a Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) distributed ledger protocol that is aimed at making mobile devices first-class citizens in the consensus process. Blizzard introduces a novel two-tier architecture by having the mobile nodes communicate through online brokers, and includes a decentralized matching scheme to ensure each node connects to a certain number of random brokers. Through mathematical analysis, we derive a guaranteed safety region (i.e., the set of ratios of malicious nodes and malic… Show more
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