A Raft Variant for Permissioned Blockchain

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Abstract

Many permissioned blockchain systems adopt Raft as one of the consensus protocol options, however, comparing with traditional distributed systems, blockchain system has more nodes which makes Raft faces challenges when applied to blockchain. In this study, we present a scalable Raft variant called SRaft for permissioned blockchain. SRaft decouples consensus into Replicating phase and Ordering phase, in Replicating Phase, SRaft adopts leaderless block replicating method and supports workload adaptive replicating pattern, so as to make full use of the bandwidth of all peers and greatly reduce the impact of unbalanced workload distribution. In Ordering phase, SRaft uses the features of the chain structure of blockchain to simplify the Ordering phase into a Sending-Receiving communication framework. In our demonstration, we use real-time dashboards containing visualization based on the process of SRaft and provide an interactive platform to give the attendees an in-depth understanding of what SRaft does.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatabase Systems for Advanced Applications - 28th International Conference, DASFAA 2023, Proceedings
EditorsXin Wang, Maria Luisa Sapino, Wook-Shin Han, Amr El Abbadi, Gill Dobbie, Zhiyong Feng, Yingxiao Shao, Hongzhi Yin
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages685-689
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9783031306778
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2023 - Tianjin, China
Duration: 17 Apr 202320 Apr 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13946 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period17/04/2320/04/23

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