Blockchain related talks

• The Red Belly Blockchain, MIT, Cambridge, USA - Facebook, Menlo Park, USA - Visa Research, Palo Alto, USA.
• BFT is back but is it the same?, BTT at DISC 2018, Vienna, Austria.
• The Danger of Private Blockchain, DCCL, Chicago, USA, INRIA, U. Rennes, France and UNSW, Australia.

The Red Belly Blockchain

The Red Belly Blockchain (RBBC) is an unforkable blockchain able to commit more than 600K transactions per second with a latency of few seconds. As opposed to mainstream public blockchains, it is not subject to double spending - when an individual successfully spends their money more than once - because its chain of blocks never forks. As opposed to consortium blockchains, it does not bottleneck when numerous clients issue transactions at the same time, thanks to its leaderless consensus algorithm.

Blockchain related publications

• ComChain: A Blockchain with Byzantine Fault Tolerant Reconfiguration
  Guillaume Vizier, Vincent Gramoli
  Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience
  2019
  John Wiley & Sons
  available  abstract  bib
• On the Performance of Distributed Ledgers for Internet of Things
  Runchao Han, Gary Shapiro, Vincent Gramoli, Xiwei Xu
  Internet of Things: Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems
  2019
  Elsevier
  bib

  As proof-of-work blockchains are inherently energy greedy and offer probabilistic guarantees, permissioned distributed ledgers based on the classic deterministic consensus of the distributed computing literature appear as promising solutions to record securely the information produced by a large amount of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices. As of today, it remains unclear whether these solutions can scale to large networks. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of prominent distributed ledgers using classic consensus protocols. We select five mainstream distributed ledgers, namely Ripple, Tendermint, Corda and v0.6 and v1.0 of Hyperledger Fabric, and evaluate both the throughput and the latency of clusters with different numbers of nodes (ranging from 2 to 32) for each of them. Our results show that, while offering sometimes thousands of transactions per second throughput, their performance usually does not scale to tens of devices as it drops dramatically when the number of devices increases. This study motivates the need for alternative solutions that solve the Blockchain consensus problem, a scalable variant of the classic consensus problem dedicated to blockchains.

• Blockchain Standard: Can We Reach Consensus?
  Vincent Gramoli, Mark Staples
  IEEE Communications Standards Magazine
  Sep 2018
  (To appear)
  available  abstract  bib
• From Blockchain Consensus Back to Byzantine Consensus
  Vincent Gramoli
  Future Generation of Computer Systems
  Sep 2017
  Elsevier (DOI:10.1016/j.future.2017.09.023)
  available  abstract  bib
• Platypus: Offchain Protocol Without Synchrony
  Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa, Vincent Gramoli
  Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'19)
  Sep 2019
  abstract  bib
• The Impact of Ethereum Throughput and Fees on the Transaction Latency during ICOs
  Michael Spain, Sean Foley, Vincent Gramoli
  International Conference on Blockchain, Economics, Security and Protocols (Tokenomics'19)
  2019
  bib
• The Attack of the Clones Against Proof-of-Authority
  Parinya Ekparinya, Vincent Gramoli, Guillaume Jourjon
  Community Ethereum Development Conference (EDCON'19)
  2019
  available  abstract  bib
• DBFT: Efficient Leaderless Byzantine Consensus and its Applications to Blockchains
  Tyler Crain, Vincent Gramoli, Mikel Larrea, Michel Raynal
  Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'18)
  2018
  IEEE
  available  abstract  bib
• Impact of Man-In-The-Middle Attacks on Ethereum
  Parinya Ekparinya, Vincent Gramoli, Guillaume Jourjon
  Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'18)
  Oct 2018
  available  bib
• ComChain: Bridging the Gap Between Public and Consortium Blockchains
  Guillaume Vizier, Vincent Gramoli
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain'18)
  Jul 2018
  available  bib
• Evaluating Blockchains for IoT
  Runchao Han, Vincent Gramoli, Xiwei Xu
  Proceedings of the 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'18)
  Feb 2018
  available  bib
• On Availability for Blockchain-Based Systems
  Ingo Weber, Vincent Gramoli, Mark Staples, Alex Ponomarev, Ralph Holz, An Binh Tran, Paul Rimba
  Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'17)
  Sep 2017
  IEEE p.64-73
  available  bib
• The Balance Attack or Why Forkable Blockchains Are Ill-Suited for Consortium
  Christopher Natoli, Vincent Gramoli
  Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'17)
  Jun 2017
  IEEE p.579-590
  available  bib
• The Blockchain Anomaly
  Christopher Natoli, Vincent Gramoli
  Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'16)
  Oct 2016
  IEEE p.310-317
  available  bib
• The Blockchain as a Software Connector
  Xiwei Xu, Cesare Pautasso, Liming Zhu, Vincent Gramoli, Alexander Ponomarev, An Binh Tran, Shiping Chen
  Proceedings of the 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'16)
  Apr 2016
  IEEE p.182-191
  available  bib
• On the Danger of Private Blockchains
  Vincent Gramoli
  Workshop on Distributed Cryptocurrencies and Consensus Ledgers (DCCL'16)
  2016
  available  bib
• Blockchain Consensus
  Tyler Crain, Vincent Gramoli, Mikel Larrea, Michel Raynal
  19ème rencontres francophones sur les aspects algorithmiques de télécommunications (AlgoTel'17)
  2017
  available  bib

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last update: March 14th, 2019