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Byzantine agreement is a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed networks that has been studied intensively for the last four decades. Most of these works designed protocols for complete networks. A key goal in Byzantine protocols…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 John Augustine , Fabien Dufoulon , Gopal Pandurangan

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

Byzantine agreement allows n processes to decide on a common value, in spite of arbitrary failures. The seminal Dolev-Reischuk bound states that any deterministic solution to Byzantine agreement exchanges Omega(n^2) bits. In synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Pierre Civit , Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Seth Gilbert , Rachid Guerraoui , Jovan Komatovic , Manuel Vidigueira , Igor Zablotchi

To improve the overall efficiency and reliability of Byzantine protocols in large sparse networks, we propose a new system assumption for developing multi-scale fault-tolerant systems, with which several kinds of multi-scale Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Yulong Zhan

We present an algorithm for synchronous deterministic Byzantine consensus, tolerant to links failures and links asynchrony. It cares for a class of networks with specific needs, where both safety and liveness are essential, and timely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ivan Klianev

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

Traditional resilient systems operate on fully-replicated fault-tolerant clusters, which limits their scalability and performance. One way to make the step towards resilient high-performance systems that can deal with huge workloads, is by…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jelle Hellings , Mohammad Sadoghi

In the Byzantine agreement problem, n nodes with possibly different input values aim to reach agreement on a common value in the presence of t < n/3 Byzantine nodes which represent arbitrary failures in the system. This paper introduces a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Darya Melnyk , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

In this paper, we consider the Byzantine reliable broadcast problem on authenticated and partially connected networks. The state-of-the-art method to solve this problem consists in combining two algorithms from the literature. Handling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Silvia Bonomi , Jérémie Decouchant , Giovanni Farina , Vincent Rahli , Sébastien Tixeuil

At PODC 2014, A. Most\'efaoui, H. Moumen, and M. Raynal presented a new and simple randomized signature-free binary consensus algorithm (denoted here MMR) that copes with the net effect of asynchrony Byzantine behaviors. Assuming message…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Chryssis Georgiou , Ioannis Marcoullis , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller

Exact Byzantine consensus problem requires that non-faulty processes reach agreement on a decision (or output) that is in the convex hull of the inputs at the non-faulty processes. It is well-known that exact consensus is impossible in an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Zhuolun Xiang , Nitin H. Vaidya

We provide a new protocol for Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement. Validated (multi-valued) Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement is a key building block in constructing Atomic Broadcast and fault-tolerant state machine replication in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ittai Abraham , Dahlia Malkhi , Alexander Spiegelman

A reliable communication primitive guarantees the delivery, integrity, and authorship of messages exchanged between correct processes of a distributed system. We investigate the necessary and sufficient conditions for reliable communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Sébastien Tixeuil

This article presents a signature-free distributed algorithm which builds an atomic read/write shared memory on top of an $n$-process asynchronous message-passing system in which up to $t<n/3$ processes may commit Byzantine failures. From a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Achour Mosteafoui , Matoula Petrolia , Michel Raynal , Claude Jard

Network coding increases throughput and is robust against failures and erasures. However, since it allows mixing of information within the network, a single corrupted packet generated by a Byzantine attacker can easily contaminate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-27 MinJi Kim , Muriel Medard , Joao Barros

This paper explores how reliable broadcast can be implemented without signatures when facing a dual adversary that can both corrupt processes and remove messages. More precisely, we consider an asynchronous $n$-process message-passing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Timothé Albouy , Davide Frey , Michel Raynal , François Taïani

In this paper, we consider a min-max optimization problem under adversarial manipulation, where there are $n$ cost functions, up to $f$ of which may be replaced by arbitrary faulty functions by an adversary. The goal is to minimize the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Shuo Liu , Nitin Vaidya

As Byzantine Agreement (BA) protocols find application in large-scale decentralized cryptocurrencies, an increasingly important problem is to design BA protocols with improved communication complexity. A few existing works have shown how to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ittai Abraham , T-H. Hubert Chan , Danny Dolev , Kartik Nayak , Rafael Pass , Ling Ren , Elaine Shi

We prove lower bounds on the round complexity of randomized Byzantine agreement (BA) protocols, bounding the halting probability of such protocols after one and two rounds. In particular, we prove that: (1) BA protocols resilient against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ran Cohen , Iftach Haitner , Nikolaos Makriyannis , Matan Orland , Alex Samorodnitsky

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