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The success of blockchains has sparked interest in large-scale deployments of Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols over wide area networks. A central feature of such networks is variable communication bandwidth across nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Lei Yang , Seo Jin Park , Mohammad Alizadeh , Sreeram Kannan , David Tse

We demonstrate a deterministic Byzantine consensus algorithm with synchronous operation in partial synchrony. It is naturally leaderless, tolerates any number of $ f<n/2 $ Byzantine processes with 2 rounds of exchange of originator-only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Ivan Klianev

The spectacular success of Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology in recent years has provided enough evidence that a widespread adoption of a common cryptocurrency system is not merely a distant vision, but a scenario that might come true in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Adam Gągol , Damian Leśniak , Damian Straszak , Michał Świętek

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 study a multi-agent resilient consensus problem, where some agents are of the Byzantine type and try to prevent the normal ones from reaching consensus. In our setting, normal agents communicate with each other asynchronously over…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

The Byzantine agreement problem requires a set of $n$ processes to agree on a value sent by a transmitter, despite a subset of $b$ processes behaving in an arbitrary, i.e. Byzantine, manner and sending corrupted messages to all processes in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Cheng Wang , Carole Delporte-Gallet , Hugues Fauconnier , Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

This paper investigates an open problem introduced in [14]. Two or more mobile agents start from different nodes of a network and have to accomplish the task of gathering which consists in getting all together at the same node at the same…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Sébastien Bouchard , Yoann Dieudonné , Bertrand Ducourthial

Most methods for Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) in the partial synchrony setting divide the local state of the nodes into views, and the transition from one view to the next dictates a leader change. In order to provide liveness, all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Oded Naor , Mathieu Baudet , Dahlia Malkhi , Alexander Spiegelman

Today's mainstream network timing models for distributed computing are synchrony, partial synchrony, and asynchrony. These models are coarse-grained and often make either too strong or too weak assumptions about the network. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Neil Giridharan , Ittai Abraham , Natacha Crooks , Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren

In this paper we will present the Multidimensional Byzantine Agreement (MBA) Protocol, a leaderless Byzantine agreement protocol defined for complete and synchronous networks that allows a network of nodes to reach consensus on a vector of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Andrea Flamini , Riccardo Longo , Alessio Meneghetti

We study communication with consensus over a broadcast channel - the receivers reliably decode the sender's message when the sender is honest, and their decoder outputs agree even if the sender acts maliciously. We characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Neha Sangwan , Varun Narayanan , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

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

We consider a simple, yet widely studied, set-up in which a Fusion Center (FC) is asked to make a binary decision about a sequence of system states by relying on the possibly corrupted decisions provided by byzantine nodes, i.e. nodes which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Andrea Abrardo , Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Benedetta Tondi

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

Byzantine agreement protocols in asynchronous networks have received renewed interest because they do not rely on network behavior to achieve termination. Conventional asynchronous Byzantine agreement protocols require every party to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Nasit S Sony , Xianzhong Ding

The goal of this article is to extend the ideas concerning Bracha-Toueg asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus algorithm and Baird's Hashgraph consensus. We propose a family of atomic broadcast algorithms, which Hashgraph consensus…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Trafim Lasy

In this paper, we study the Byzantine lattice agreement problem in synchronous systems. The lattice agreement problem in crash failure model has been studied both in synchronous and asynchronous systems, which leads to the current best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Xiong Zheng , Vijay Garg

We introduce the problem of determining the identity of a byzantine user (internal adversary) in a communication system. We consider a two-user discrete memoryless multiple access channel where either user may deviate from the prescribed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Neha Sangwan , Mayank Bakshi , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We study a general framework for broadcast gossip algorithms which use companion variables to solve the average consensus problem. Each node maintains an initial state and a companion variable. Iterative updates are performed asynchronously…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Wu Shaochuan , Michael G. Rabbat

Recent advances in generative AI have enabled sophisticated multi-agent architectures for healthcare, where large language models power collaborative clinical decision-making. However, these distributed systems face critical challenges in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nihir Chadderwala