Roger Wattenhofer

TL;DR: This paper analyzes how Bitcoin uses a multi-hop broadcast to propagate transactions and blocks through the network to update the ledger replicas, and verifies the conjecture that the propagation delay in the network is the primary cause for blockchain forks.

TL;DR: A novel technique is developed that leverages a small amount of scratch capacity on links to apply updates in a provably congestion-free manner, without making any assumptions about the order and timing of updates at individual switches.

TL;DR: The design of Farsite is reported on and the lessons learned by implementing much of that design are reported, including how to locally caching file data, lazily propagating file updates, and varying the duration and granularity of content leases.

TL;DR: This work proposes a simple distributed algorithm where each node makes local decisions about its transmission power and these local decisions collectively guarantee global connectivity and gives an approximation scheme in which the power consumption of each route can be made arbitrarily close to the optimal by carefully choosing the parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how fundamental and circumstantial bottlenecks in Bitcoin limit the ability of its current peer-to-peer overlay network to support substantially higher throughputs and lower latencies.