A byzantine fault-tolerant consensus library for hyperledger fabric

Artem Barger; Yacov Manevich; Hagar Meir; Yoav Tock

doi:10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461099

A byzantine fault-tolerant consensus library for hyperledger fabric

Artem Barger, Yacov Manevich, Hagar Meir, Yoav Tock

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Abstract

Hyperledger Fabric is an enterprise grade permissioned distributed ledger platform that offers modularity for a broad set of industry use cases. One modular component is a pluggable ordering service that establishes consensus on the order of transactions and batches them into blocks. However, as of the time of this writing, there is no production grade Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) ordering service for Fabric, with the latest version (v2.3) supporting only Crash Fault-Tolerance (CFT).In this work we describe the design and implementation of a BFT ordering service for Fabric, employing a new BFT consensus library. The new library, based on the BFT-SMART protocol and written in Go, is tailored to the blockchain use-case, yet is general enough to cater to a wide variety of other uses. The BFT library's design and integration into Fabric address crucial aspects that were left unsolved in all prior work, making them unfit for production use. We evaluate the new BFT ordering service by comparing it with the currently supported Raft-based CFT ordering service in Hyperledger Fabric.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665435789
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461099
State	Published - 3 May 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021 - Virtual, Sydney, Australia Duration: 3 May 2021 → 6 May 2021

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021

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Conference	3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Virtual, Sydney
Period	3/05/21 → 6/05/21

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© 2021 IEEE.

Keywords

Blockchain
Distributed Ledger

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Accounting
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems and Management
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Barger, A., Manevich, Y., Meir, H., & Tock, Y. (2021). A byzantine fault-tolerant consensus library for hyperledger fabric. In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021 (IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461099

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Barger, A, Manevich, Y, Meir, H & Tock, Y 2021, A byzantine fault-tolerant consensus library for hyperledger fabric. in IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021, Virtual, Sydney, Australia, 3/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461099

A byzantine fault-tolerant consensus library for hyperledger fabric. / Barger, Artem; Manevich, Yacov; Meir, Hagar et al.
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. (IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021).

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