A Scalable Multi-Layer PBFT Consensus for Blockchain - Li, Wenyu; Feng, Chenglin; Zhang, Lei; Xu, Hao; Cao, Bin; Imran, Muhammad Ali (IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems, 2021)
Keywords: Blockchain; Communication; communication complexity; Complexity; Complexity theory; consensus mechanism; Cryptography; Fault tolerance; Group communication; Internet of Things; Multilayers; node scalability; Nodes; PBFT; Peer-to-peer computing; Scalability; Security; System effectiveness; Throughput