ONLAY: Online Layering for scalable asynchronous BFT system
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This paper presents a new framework, namely , for scalable asynchronous distributed systems. In this framework, we propose a consensus protocol L_ϕ, which is based on the Lachesis protocol lachesis01. At the core of L_ϕ protocol, it introduces to use layering algorithm to achieve practical Byzantine fault tolerance (pBFT) in leaderless asynchronous Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Further, we present new online layering algorithms for the evolutionary DAGs across the nodes. Our new protocol achieves determistic scalable consensus in asynchronous pBFT by using assigned layers and asynchronous partially ordered sets with logical time ordering instead of blockchains. The partial ordering produced by L_ϕ is flexible but consistent across the distributed system of nodes. We then present the formal model of our layering-based consensus. The model is generalized that can be applied to abstract asynchronous DAG-based distributed systems.
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