Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Byzantine Fault Tolerance-Based Consensus Protocols for Blockchains
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| Module # | INF-VS-041 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Programmes | Computer Science Bachelor, Computer Science Master, Computer and Communication Systems Engineering Bachelor, Computer and Communication Systems Engineering Master, Business Information Systems Bachelor, Business Information Systems Master | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBR Group | DS (Prof. Kapitza) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type | Seminar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Credits | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hours | 0+2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time & Place | *Kick-Off Meeting* Wednesday, 04.04.2018, 09:00, IZ 105 Weekly meeting time: Monday, 15:00 - 16:30, IZ 105 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Certificates | Submission of the essay and successful presentation. The grade is determined by the activity in the seminar as well as the quality of essay and presentation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Seminar TopicsClassical BFT papers
Further BFT Topics
Scalable BFT Protocols for Blockchains
SeminarThe talk and essay can be in either English or German. Each participant will take one or more papers under a specific topic. Participants are responsible for a peer review, including:
NotesPlease submit the essay as well as your presentation slides. The requirements for presentation and essay are listed as follows:
Each participant is supposed to do further research based on the paper. The supervisors are always glad to help in this case. The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this seminar, essays must be done in your own words. Plagiarism is an offense against the examination regulations. TemplatesThe LaTeX template for seminar essay can be found here. Additional considerations for the design of the essay can be found on the website of IBR. LaTeX templates for presentation slides can be found here. Additional considerations for the design can be found on the website of IBR. MaterialThe material is only available to registered attendees. In order to register, you need either an IBR POSIX account or a self-activated IBR-y-account. Afterwards you can login to this site. Chapter Slides Exercises 1. Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance    2. Troxy 3. HoneyBadgerBFT 4. Algorand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schedule | 04.04.2018, 09:00 Kick-Off Meeting (IZ Raum 105) 14.05.2018, 15:00 Präsentation PBFT (IZ Raum 105) 21.05.2018, 15:00 Exkursionswoche (IZ Raum 105) 28.05.2018, 15:00 Präsentation Troxy (IZ Raum 119) 04.06.2018, 15:00 Präsentation HoneyBadgerBFT (IZ Raum 105) 11.06.2018, 15:00 Präsentation Algorand (IZ Raum 105) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Slides: On World-Wide-Web, there are different ways to enhance your seminar presentations:
For the literature review there links might be helpful: |