BSCI'24: Best Student Paper Award

Best Student Paper Award at BSCI 2024

Our publication "On the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on Leader-Based Consensus Communication" has been awarded with the Best Student Paper Award at the 6th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure 2024.

In our work we investigate the performance and robustness impact of network transport protocols, secure channels and their configuration onto leader-based consensus. We experimentally quantify the impact of four transport protocols and two secure channel implementations on a HotStuff deployment. Our results show, that delays of a single processing layer often impact all layers above, and typical optimizations such as command batching or pipelining act as amplifiers. We demonstrate that tuning of the transport protocol building block opens a novel optimization space to a class of leader-based consensus algorithm deployments.