Research Article
Efficient Byzantine Consensus Mechanism Based on Reputation in IoT Blockchain
Table 3
Election authority classification.
| Reputation ranking | Reputation growth rate ranking | Master node | Consensus node | Candidate consensus node |
| Top 25% | Top 25% | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Top 50% | Top 50% | ✓ | ✓ | × | Top 85% | Top 85% | ✓ | × | × | Bottom 15% | Bottom 15% | × | × | × |
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