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Adaptive Consensus Protocols for High-Throughput Decentralized Sharding in Heterogeneous Edge Networks

A Formal Verification and Empirical Latency Evaluation

Sophia Chen *
Liam O'Connor *
* University of Cambridge, UK (United Kingdom)
* Oxford University, UK (United Kingdom)

Abstract

Decentralized distributed ledgers deployed across heterogeneous edge topologies frequently suffer from transaction throughput degradation caused by asynchronous validator latency and uncoordinated cross-shard communication. In this paper, we formulate an Adaptive State-Partitioned Consensus (ASPC) protocol that dynamically recalibrates shard clustering based on peer link quality and localized compute density. We establish formal safety and liveness bounds under non-synchronous network bounds and demonstrate a 3.8x throughput speedup over standard PBFT variants under peak stress conditions across a 250-node geographic testbed.

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Consensus Protocols Edge Computing Sharding Byzantine Fault Tolerance Distributed Systems
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Funding: Supported by European Research Council Grant (ERC-2024-StG 948210) and the UKRI Computing Initiative.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no competing financial or institutional interests.
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Chen, et al. (2026). Adaptive Consensus Protocols for High-Throughput Decentralized Sharding in Heterogeneous Edge Networks. Journal of Advanced Computing and Applied Sciences, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1234/jcas.2026.040201
Chen, et al. "Adaptive Consensus Protocols for High-Throughput Decentralized Sharding in Heterogeneous Edge Networks." Journal of Advanced Computing and Applied Sciences, vol. 4, no. 2, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1234/jcas.2026.040201
Chen, et al. "Adaptive Consensus Protocols for High-Throughput Decentralized Sharding in Heterogeneous Edge Networks." Journal of Advanced Computing and Applied Sciences 4, no. 2 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1234/jcas.2026.040201