ORIGINAL RESEARCH•Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2027)•pp. 16-28
Open Access (CC BY 4.0)
Fault-Tolerant Consensus for Decentralized Edge Intelligence using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Prof. Kenji Sato [DEMO]1*iD
1.Tokyo Advanced Science University [DEMO], Japan
DOI: 10.5555/IJCSDI.2027.0002
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Received:Oct 15, 2026
Revised:Directly Accepted
Accepted:Dec 20, 2026
Published:Jan 15, 2027
Abstract
Modern distributed edge applications demand trustless coordination among heterogeneous compute nodes with minimal communication overhead. We introduce an asymmetric zero-knowledge consensus protocol optimized for constrained devices. Our empirical evaluation shows consensus latency below 18ms on ARM-based cluster nodes.
Keywords
Edge IntelligenceConsensus ProtocolZero-Knowledge ProofsDistributed SystemsIoT
References
[1] M. Castro and B. Liskov, "Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance," OSDI, 1999. [2] E. Ben-Sasson et al., "SNARKs for C: Verifying Program Executions Succinctly and in Zero Knowledge," CRYPTO, 2013.
Declarations & Disclosures
Funding:No specific grant was received for this study.
Conflict of Interest:The authors declare no competing interests.
Data Availability:Data sharing is not applicable to this article.