Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains

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• University of Waterloo
• Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00
• Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

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A critical problem with the consensus protocols underlying blockchains is that they do not scale well. As the number of transactions needing linearization increases, network traffic from topology-oblivious broadcasts can quickly overwhelm the network or a central coordinator. Thus, achieving strong linearizabiilty is typically restricted to a handful of participants, or systems must resort to weaker forms of consensus, such as those using proof of work. To address this problem, we propose Canopus, a highly-parallel consensus protocol that exploits modern data center network topology, parallelism, and consensus semantics to achieve scalability. Our key insight is to make network communication patterns topology-aware. In our prototype implementation, Canopus achieves rates as high as 5m linearizable transactions/second over 21 nodes distributed across 7 datacenters. I will also outline an extension, Resilient Canopus, that makes Canopus Byzantine Fault Tolerant as well as network partition tolerant.

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