TY  - CHAP
A1  - Eigelshoven, Felix
A1  - Ullrich, André
A1  - Bender, Benedict
T1  - Public blockchain
BT  - a systematic literature review on the sustainability of consensus algorithms
T2  - Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)- A Virtual AIS Conference
N2  - Blockchain has the potential to change business transactions to a major extent. Thereby, underlying consensus algorithms are the core mechanism to achieve consistency in distributed infrastructures. Their application aims for transparency and accountability in societal transactions. As a result of missing reviews holistically covering consensus algorithms, we aim to (1) identify prevalent consensus algorithms for public blockchains, and (2) address the resource perspective with a sustainability consideration (whereby we address the three spheres of sustainability). Our systematic literature review identified 33 different consensus algorithms for public blockchains. Our contribution is twofold: first, we provide a systematic summary of consensus algorithms for public blockchains derived from the scientific literature as well as real-world applications and systemize them according to their research focus; second, we assess the sustainability of consensus algorithms using a representative sample and thereby highlight the gaps in literature to address the holistic sustainability of consensus algorithms.
KW  - Blockchain
KW  - Consensus algorithms
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Systematic literature revieew
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2020_rp/202
SP  - 1
EP  - 19
ER  -