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Jul 2026
H-PBFT: A Hierarchical and Credit-Aware PBFT Consensus Mechanism for Blockchain-Based Intelligent Transportation Systems
Simulation results show that compared with standard PBFT, Q-PBFT, and APBFT, H-PBFT exhibits significant advantages in consensus latency, throughput, and view switching recovery time, and maintains high system robustness even in complex network environments with malicious nodes.
Zhenhua Wang, Jiangang Hu, Xinmeng Wang et al.
· Future Internet · 0 citations