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Consider an asynchronous system with private channels and $n$ processes, up to $t$ of which may be faulty. We settle a longstanding open question by providing a Byzantine agreement protocol that simultaneously achieves three properties: 1.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-08-12 Ittai Abraham , Danny Dolev , Joseph Y. Halpern

Quantum mechanics provides several methods to generate and securely distribute private lists of numbers suitably correlated to solve the Three Byzantine Generals Problem. So far, these methods are based on three-qutrit singlet states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 Mohamed Bourennane , Adan Cabello , Marek Zukowski

We explore the potential of Time-Bin Conference Key Agreement (TB CKA) protocol as a means to achieve consensus among multiple parties. We provide an explanation of the underlying physical implementation, i.e. TB CKA fundamentals and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Marta Misiaszek-Schreyner , Miriam Kosik , Mirek Sopek

In this paper, we study the problem of \emph{Byzantine Agreement with predictions}. Along with a proposal, each process is also given a prediction, i.e., extra information which is not guaranteed to be true. For example, one might imagine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Naama Ben-David , Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Faith Ellen , Seth Gilbert

Consensus is one of the most fundamental distributed computing problems. In particular, it serves as a building block in many replication based fault-tolerant systems and in particular in multiple recent blockchain solutions. Depending on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Yehonatan Buchnik , Roy Friedman

We study the convergence problem in fully asynchronous, uni-dimensional robot networks that are prone to Byzantine (i.e. malicious) failures. In these settings, oblivious anonymous robots with arbitrary initial positions are required to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-05 Zohir Bouzid , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

Clock synchronization serves as a foundational subsystem in quantum key distribution (QKD). The recently proposed Qubit-based synchronization (Qubit4Sync) has opportunities in eliminating additional cost, noise, and potential side channels.…

The current algorithms are based on linear model, for example, Precision Time Protocol (PTP) which requires frequent synchronization in order to handle the effects of clock frequency drift. This paper introduces a nonlinear approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Frank Wang , Danjue Li

In classical computation, a problem can be solved in multiple steps where calculated results of each step can be copied and used repeatedly. While in quantum computation, it is difficult to realize a similar multi-step computation process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Hefeng Wang , Sixia Yu , Hua Xiang

Quantum computers are capable of efficiently contracting unitary tensor networks, a task that is likely to remain difficult for classical computers. For instance, networks based on matrix product states or the multi-scale entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Galit Anikeeva , Isaac H. Kim , Patrick Hayden

Integer programming (IP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is widely used to represent a diverse set of real-world problems spanning multiple fields, such as finance, engineering, logistics, and operations research. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the throughput of Byzantine agreement, given that the sum capacity of all links in between nodes in the system is finite. We have proposed a highly efficient Byzantine agreement algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

This paper investigates the problem \textit{good-case latency} of Byzantine agreement, broadcast and state machine replication in the synchronous authenticated setting. The good-case latency measure captures the time it takes to reach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ittai Abraham , Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren , Zhuolun Xiang

In order to develop solutions that perform actions as early as possible, analysis of distributed algorithms using epistemic logic has generally concentrated on ``full information protocols'', which may be inefficient with respect to space…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ron van der Meyden

As quantum computing moves from isolated experiments toward integration with large-scale workflows, the integration of quantum devices into HPC systems has gained much interest. Quantum cloud providers expose shared devices through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Sinan Pehlivanoglu , Ulrik de Muelenaere , Peter Kogge , Amr Sabry

Quantum clock synchronization underpins modern secure communications and critical infrastructure, yet its fundamental dependence on channel reciprocity introduces an exploitable vulnerability to asymmetric delay attacks. Current attack…

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

Supporting increasingly higher rates in wireless networks requires highly accurate clock synchronization across the nodes. Motivated by this need, in this work we consider distributed clock synchronization for half-duplex (HD) TDMA wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Itay Zino , Ron Dabora , H. Vincent Poor

A generic non-integrable (unitary) out-of-equilibrium quantum process, when interrogated across many times, is shown to yield the same statistics as an (non-unitary) equilibrated process. In particular, using the tools of quantum stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Neil Dowling , Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Felix A. Pollock , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi

This paper proposes a control algorithm for stable implementation of asynchronous parallel quadratic programming (PQP) through dual decomposition technique. In general, distributed and parallel optimization requires synchronization of data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Kooktae Lee