Latency limits of byzantine consensus

In this talk, Ling Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) reviews results on the commit latency of Byzantine consensus protocols. He discusses the tight good-case commit latency in various settings, and the concurrent 2-and-3-round design paradigm as seen in Solana’s Alpenglow and other protocols.

About the presenter

Ling is an assistant professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he obtained his Ph.D. from MIT and worked at VMware Research. His research interests span cryptography, computer security, and distributed algorithms.

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