Dakai Kang

Dakai Kang

PhD candidate at UC Davis ExpoLab. Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus and distributed systems.

Publications

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Conference & Journal Papers

Brief Announcement: Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols

Published in Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025), LIPIcs Vol. 356, pp. 59:1–59:7, 2025

Brief announcement on carrying the tail in BFT consensus protocols.

Recommended citation: Gupta, S., Kang, D., Malkhi, D., & Sadoghi, M. (2025). "Brief Announcement: Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols." In Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025) (LIPIcs, Vol. 356, pp. 59:1–59:7). Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. [Preprint] [Blog]
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HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation

Published in Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 3(3), 1–29, 2025

Linear-communication BFT consensus accelerated with one-phase speculation. Honorable Mention for Best Artifact.

Recommended citation: Kang, D., Gupta, S., Malkhi, D., & Sadoghi, M. (2025). "HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation." Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 3(3), 1–29. Honorable Mention for Best Artifact. [Preprint] [Blog]
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FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design

Published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 19(2), 265–278, 2025

Order fairness for multi-proposer DAG-based BFT consensus protocols.

Recommended citation: Kang, D., Chen, J., Dinh, T. T. A., & Sadoghi, M. (2025). "FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 19(2), 265–278. [Preprint]
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Spotless: Concurrent Rotational Consensus Made Practical through Rapid View Synchronization

Published in 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024

Practical concurrent rotational consensus with rapid view synchronization.

Recommended citation: Kang, D., Rahnama, S., Hellings, J., & Sadoghi, M. (2024). "Spotless: Concurrent Rotational Consensus Made Practical through Rapid View Synchronization." 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 1916-1929. IEEE. [Preprint]
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