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Byzantine general problem is the core problem of the consensus algorithm, and many protocols are proposed recently to improve the decentralization level, the performance and the security of the blockchain. There are two challenging issues…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Tzu-Wei Chao , Hao Chung , Po-Chun Kuo

One of the most celebrated problems of fault-tolerant distributed computing is the consensus problem. It was shown to abstract a myriad of problems in which processes have to agree on a single value. Consensus applications include…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Romaric Duvignau , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) consensus is a fundamental primitive for distributed computation. However, BFT protocols suffer from the ordering manipulation, in which an adversary can make front-running. Several protocols are proposed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Guangren Wang , Liang Cai , Fangyu Gai , Jianyu Niu

Consensus in decentralized systems that asynchronously receive events and which are subject to Byzantine faults is a common problem with many real-life applications. Advances in decentralized systems, such as distributed ledger (i.e.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Fedor Muratov , Andrei Lebedev , Nikolai Iushkevich , Bulat Nasrulin , Makoto Takemiya

We present a solution to consensus on a torus with Byzantine faults. Any solution to classic consensus that is tolerant to $f$ Byzantine faults requires $2f+1$ node-disjoint paths. Due to limited torus connectivity, this bound necessitates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Joseph Oglio , Kendric Hood , Gokarna Sharma , Mikhail Nesterenko

Blockchain technology has advanced rapidly in recent years and is now widely used in a variety of fields. Blockchain appears to be one of the best solutions for managing massive heterogeneous devices while achieving advanced data security…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xu Yuan , Fang Luo , Muhammad Zeeshan Haider , Zhikui Chen , Yucheng Li

We propose the first deterministic algorithm that tolerates up to $f$ byzantine faults in $3f+1$-sized networks and performs in the asynchronous CORDA model. Our solution matches the previously established lower bound for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Zohir Bouzid , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

The problem of Byzantine consensus has been key to designing secure distributed systems. However, it is particularly difficult, mainly due to the presence of Byzantine processes that act arbitrarily and the unknown message delays in general…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa , Vincent Gramoli

This paper considers the problem of detection in distributed networks in the presence of data falsification (Byzantine) attacks. Detection approaches considered in the paper are based on fully distributed consensus algorithms, where all of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Bhavya Kailkhura , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney

The parallel Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocol is viewed as a promising solution to address the consensus scalability issue of the permissioned blockchain. One of the main challenges in parallel BFT is the view change process that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yifei Xie , Btissam Er-Rahmadi , Xiao Chen , Tiejun Ma , Jane Hillston

Distributed machine learning algorithms enable learning of models from datasets that are distributed over a network without gathering the data at a centralized location. While efficient distributed algorithms have been developed under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Zhixiong Yang , Waheed U. Bajwa

Numerous distributed applications, such as cloud computing and distributed ledgers, necessitate the system to invoke asynchronous consensus objects an unbounded number of times, where the completion of one consensus instance is followed by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Chryssis Georgiou , Michel Raynal , Elad M. Schiller

Consider a synchronous point-to-point network of n nodes connected by directed links, wherein each node has a binary input. This paper proves a tight necessary and sufficient condition on the underlying communication topology for achieving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Lewis Tseng , Nitin Vaidya

Consensus maximization is one of the most widely used robust fitting paradigms in computer vision, and the development of algorithms for consensus maximization is an active research topic. In this paper, we propose an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Huu Le , David Suter

Byzantine agreement algorithms typically assume implicit initial state consistency and synchronization among the correct nodes and then operate in coordinated rounds of information exchange to reach agreement based on the input values. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Ariel Daliot , Danny Dolev

We study Byzantine collaborative learning, where $n$ nodes seek to collectively learn from each others' local data. The data distribution may vary from one node to another. No node is trusted, and $f < n$ nodes can behave arbitrarily. We…

In this paper, we explore the problem of iterative approximate Byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphs. In particular, we prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of iterative byzantine consensus algorithms.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Nitin Vaidya , Lewis Tseng , Guanfeng Liang

In this paper we analyze from the game theory point of view Byzantine Fault Tolerant blockchains when processes exhibit rational or Byzantine behavior. Our work is the first to model the Byzantine-consensus based blockchains as a committee…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou , Bruno Biais , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

The practical Byzantine fault tolerant (PBFT) consensus mechanism is one of the most basic consensus algorithms (or protocols) in blockchain technologies, thus its performance evaluation is an interesting and challenging topic due to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Fan-Qi Ma , Quan-Lin Li , Yi-Han Liu , Yan-Xia Chang

Consensus algorithms provide strategies to solve problems in a distributed system with the added constraint that data can only be shared between adjacent computing nodes. We find these algorithms in applications for wireless and sensor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Michel Toulouse , Hai Le , Cao Vien Phung , Denis Hock