Leader Schedule
Consensus Mechanisms
4 references
A predetermined ordering of leaders/validators assigned to produce blocks over upcoming slots. A schedule helps nodes anticipate who should produce blocks when.
Appears in 4 whitepaper sections
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Solana
Outline
...eliminates the need for a traditional mempool. We explain how the predetermined leader schedule, made possible by PoH's trusted clock, enables clients to send transactions dir...
Network Design
...PoH sequence itself. Because every validator can independently compute the same leader schedule from the same PoH state, the rotation is globally consistent without requiring ...
Proof of Stake Consensus
...r BFT is determined by the PoH sequence and the current stake distribution. The leader schedule is computed deterministically from a recent snapshot of the stake distribution ...
Conclusion
...oH timestamps. Gulf Stream eliminates the mempool by leveraging the predictable leader schedule that PoH enables. Turbine uses erasure coding and tree-structured propagation t...