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Multi-valued Byzantine agreement (MVBA) protocols are essential for atomic broadcast and fault-tolerant state machine replication in asynchronous networks. Despite advances, challenges persist in optimizing these protocols for communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Nasit S Sony , Xianzhong Ding , Mukesh Singhal

Achieving agreement among distributed parties is a fundamental task in modern systems, underpinning applications such as consensus in blockchains, coordination in cloud infrastructure, and fault tolerance in critical services. However, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Anton Paramonov , Roger Wattenhofer

In this paper, we consider the Byzantine-robust stochastic optimization problem defined over decentralized static and time-varying networks, where the agents collaboratively minimize the summation of expectations of stochastic local cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jie Peng , Weiyu Li , Qing Ling

How to achieve precise distributed optimization despite unknown attacks, especially the Byzantine attacks, is one of the critical challenges for multiagent systems. This paper addresses a distributed resilient optimization for linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Chenhang Yan , Liping Yan , Yuezu Lv , Bolei Dong , Yuanqing Xia

We consider the problem of reliably broadcasting information in a multihop asynchronous network, despite the presence of Byzantine failures: some nodes are malicious and behave arbitrarly. We focus on non-cryptographic solutions. Most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil

Large scale cryptocurrencies require the participation of millions of participants and support economic activity of billions of dollars, which has led to new lines of work in binary Byzantine Agreement (BBA) and consensus. The new work aims…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Thaddeus Dryja , Quanquan C. Liu , Neha Narula

It is pointed out that two separated quantum channels and three classical authenticated channels are sufficient resources to achieve detectable broadcast.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Iblisdir , N. Gisin

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed Bayesian detection in the presence of Byzantines in the network. It is assumed that a fraction of the nodes in the network are compromised and reprogrammed by an adversary to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Bhavya Kailkhura , Yunghsiang S. Han , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney

Byzantine agreement protocols in asynchronous networks have gained renewed attention due to their independence from network timing assumptions to ensure termination. Traditional asynchronous Byzantine agreement protocols require every party…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nasit S Sony

We investigate the solvability of the Byzantine Reliable Broadcast and Byzantine Broadcast Channel problems in distributed systems affected by Mobile Byzantine Faults. We show that both problems are not solvable even in one of the most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Sébastien Tixeuil

Consider an asynchronous system where each node begins with some point in $\mathbb{R}^m$. Given some fixed $\epsilon > 0$, we wish to have every nonfaulty node eventually output a point in $\mathbb{R}^m$, where all outputs are within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Maya Dotan , Gilad Stern , Aviv Zohar

Byzantine agreement is a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed computing that has been studied intensively for the last four decades. Much of the research has focused on a static Byzantine adversary, where the adversary is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Fabien Dufoulon , Gopal Pandurangan

In distributed computing, a Byzantine fault is a condition where a component behaves inconsistently, showing different symptoms to different components of the system. Consensus among the correct components can be reached by appropriately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Zoltán Guba , István Finta , Ákos Budai , Lóránt Farkas , Zoltán Zimborás , András Pályi

We consider the problem of reliably broadcasting information in a multihop asynchronous network that is subject to Byzantine failures. Most existing approaches give conditions for perfect reliable broadcast (all correct nodes deliver the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, which has been studied extensively over the past decades. State-of-the-art algorithms are predominantly based on the approach to share encoded fragments of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Thomas Locher

Interactive consistency is the problem in which n nodes, where up to t may be byzantine, each with its own private value, run an algorithm that allows all non-faulty nodes to infer the values of each other node. This problem is relevant to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Panos Diamantopoulos , Stathis Maneas , Christos Patsonakis , Nikos Chondros , Mema Roussopoulos

Randomized algorithm that achieves multi-valued Byzantine agreement with high probability, and achieves optimal complexity.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-29 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

We study the detection of continuous-variable entanglement, for which most of the existing methods designed so far require a full specification of the devices, and we present protocols for entanglement detection in a scenario where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Paolo Abiuso , Stefan Bäuml , Daniel Cavalcanti , Antonio Acín

In the multisensor sequential change detection problem, a disruption occurs in an environment monitored by multiple sensors. This disruption induces a change in the observations of an unknown subset of sensors. In the Byzantine version of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Georgios Fellouris , Erhan Bayraktar , Lifeng Lai

We consider the problem of reliably broadcasting information in a multihop asyn- chronous network that is subject to Byzantine failures. That is, some nodes of the network can exhibit arbitrary (and potentially malicious) behavior. Existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-30 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil