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This short paper presents a necessary condition for Byzantine $k$-set agreement in (synchronous or asynchronous) message-passing systems and asynchronous shared memory systems where the processes communicate through atomic single-writer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Zohir Bouzid , Damien Imbs , Michel Raynal

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine dispersion and extends previous work along several parameters. The problem of Byzantine dispersion asks: given $n$ robots, up to $f$ of which are Byzantine, initially placed arbitrarily on an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Kaushik Mondal , William K. Moses

Connectivity of temporal graphs has been widely studied both as graph theory and as gossip theory. In particular, it is well known that in order to connect every vertex to every other, a temporal graph needs to have at least $2n-4$ edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Thomas Bellitto , Jules Bouton Popper , Justine Cauvi , Bruno Escoffier , Raphaëlle Maistre-Matus

Canonical asynchronous rounds are a widely used abstraction for structuring distributed algorithms, making asynchronous executions appear synchronous and enabling modular reasoning. We show that this abstraction is fundamentally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hagit Attiya , Itay Flam , Jennifer L. Welch

We study synchronization and consensus in a group of dynamical systems coupled via multiple directed networks. We show that even though the coupling in a single network may not be sufficient to synchronize the systems, combination of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Chai Wah Wu

This paper gives sufficient conditions for having complete synchronization of oscillators in connected undirected networks. The considered oscillators are not necessarily identical and the synchronization terms can be nonlinear. An…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-24 Sébastien Orange , Nathalie Verdière

We consider a basic model of a dynamical distribution network, modeled as a directed graph with storage variables corresponding to every vertex and flow inputs corresponding to every edge, subject to unknown but constant inflows and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Jieqiang Wei , Arjan J. van der Schaft

This paper considers the problem of reliable broadcast in asynchronous authenticated systems, in which n processes communicate using signed messages and up to t processes may behave arbitrarily (Byzantine processes). In addition, for each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Timothé Albouy , Davide Frey , Michel Raynal , François Taïani

Fault-tolerant consensus has been studied extensively in the literature, because it is one of the most important distributed primitives and has wide applications in practice. This paper surveys important results on fault-tolerant consensus…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Lewis Tseng

Inspired by distributed resource allocation problems in dynamic topology networks, we initiate the study of distributed consensus with finite messaging passing. We first find a sufficient condition on the network graph for which no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Debashis Dash , Ashutosh Sabharwal

We develop deterministic algorithms for the problems of consensus, gossiping and checkpointing with nodes prone to failing. Distributed systems are modeled as synchronous complete networks. Failures are represented either as crashes or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bogdan S. Chlebus , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jan Olkowski

This paper studies the Byzantine Agreement problem where the nodes have access to a predictor that flags nodes for suspicion of faulty (Byzantine) behavior. We focus on algorithmic resilience -- the maximum number of faulty nodes an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Julien Dallot , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijevic , Stefan Schmid , Patrik Welters

Group consensus implies reaching multiple groups where agents belonging to the same cluster reach state consensus. This paper focuses on linear multi-agent systems under nonnegative directed graphs. A new necessary and sufficient condition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Zhongchang Liu , Wing Shing Wong

Low latency is one of the desired properties for partially synchronous Byzantine consensus protocols. Previous protocols have achieved consensus with just two communication steps either by reducing the bound on the number of faults the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Chen Feng , Victoria Lemieux

The Hashgraph consensus algorithm is an algorithm for asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerance intended for distributed shared ledgers. Its main distinguishing characteristic is it achieves consensus without exchanging any extra messages;…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Karl Crary

This report considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in synchronous parallelized learning that is founded on the parallelized stochastic gradient descent (parallelized-SGD) algorithm. The system comprises a master, and $n$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus (IABC) is a fundamental problem of fault-tolerant distributed computing where machines seek to achieve approximate consensus to arbitrary exactness in the presence of Byzantine failures. We present…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Matthew Ding

This paper considers a distributed optimization problem in the presence of Byzantine agents capable of introducing untrustworthy information into the communication network. A resilient distributed subgradient algorithm is proposed based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Jingxuan Zhu , Yixuan Lin , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu

This work considers resilient, cooperative state estimation in unreliable multi-agent networks. A network of agents aims to collaboratively estimate the value of an unknown vector parameter, while an {\em unknown} subset of agents suffer…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Lili Su , Shahin Shahrampour

In this letter, we consider the problem of distributed Bayesian detection in the presence of data falsifying Byzantines in the network. The problem of distributed detection is formulated as a binary hypothesis test at the fusion center (FC)…

Applications · Statistics 2015-06-22 Bhavya Kailkhura , Yunghsiang S. Han , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney