The DISCO Group’s publication “Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT” won the Best Paper Award at Middleware 2024. The paper shows how to reduce the latency of modern blockchain protocols.
From left to right: Zhi Jin (Program Committee Co-Chair), Yann Vonlanthen; Valerio Schiavoni (Program Committee Co-Chair); Jiannong Cao (General Chair)
When it comes to online services, latency is a critical aspect of the user experience. While centralized applications – such as Mastercard, Visa and Twint – offer services that are almost instantaneous to use, their decentralized counterparts often experience noticeable delays, sometimes lasting minutes or even hours (as in the case of Bitcoin).
Banyan [*] addresses this challenge by introducing a rapid process that allows blockchain blocks to be transferred with only two message delays. This can help reduce the latency commonly associated with modern blockchain protocols.
Congratulations!
[*] Yann Vonlanthen, Massimo Albarello, Jakub Sliwinski, and Roger Wattenhofer: “Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT”
(external site https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3652892.3700788)
