Dory: Faster Asynchronous BFT with Reduced Communication for Permissioned Blockchains

Zongyang Zhang; You Zhou; Sisi Duan; Haibin Zhang; Bin Hu; Licheng Wang; Jianwei Liu

Paper 2022/1709

Dory: Faster Asynchronous BFT with Reduced Communication for Permissioned Blockchains

Zongyang Zhang, Beihang University

You Zhou

, Beihang University

Sisi Duan

, Tsinghua University

Haibin Zhang

, Beijing Institute of Technology

Bin Hu

, Beihang University

Licheng Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology

Jianwei Liu, Beihang University

Abstract

Asynchronous Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT) protocols (e.g., HoneyBadger and Dumbo family protocols) have received increasing attention as the consensus mechanism of permissioned blockchains, given their particular robustness against timing and performance attacks. However, there is a substantial performance gap before they can be applied in real systems. In this paper, we identify and address two critical issues, and design Dory, an asynchronous BFT consensus protocol with improved efficiency and lower communication compared to the state-of-the-art protocol, sDumbo. At the core of our approach are two new building blocks reducing the communication cost and a novel framework utilizing transactions with quadratic message complexity. We have implemented Dory and sDumbo in a new Golang library. Via a deployment using up to 151 participants on Amazon EC2, we show that Dory consistently outperforms sDumbo during both failure and failure-free scenarios. For instance, Dory has up to 5x the throughput of sDumbo in the failure-free scenario.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: Byzantine fault-tolerance consensus asynchronous blockchain communication complexity fairness
Contact author(s): zongyangzhang @ buaa edu cn
youzhou @ buaa edu cn
duansisi @ tsinghua edu cn
haibin @ bit edu cn
hubin0205 @ buaa edu cn
lcwang @ bit edu cn
liujianwei @ buaa edu cn
History: 2023-12-20: last of 4 revisions; 2022-12-09: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2022/1709
License: CC BY-NC

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1709,
      author = {Zongyang Zhang and You Zhou and Sisi Duan and Haibin Zhang and Bin Hu and Licheng Wang and Jianwei Liu},
      title = {Dory: Faster Asynchronous {BFT} with Reduced Communication for Permissioned Blockchains},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/1709},
      year = {2022},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1709}
}