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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

In this paper, we present a Byzantine fault tolerant distributed commit protocol for transactions running over untrusted networks. The traditional two-phase commit protocol is enhanced by replicating the coordinator and by running a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wenbing Zhao

In this paper, we consider the Byzantine-robust stochastic optimization problem defined over decentralized static and time-varying networks, where the agents collaboratively minimize the summation of expectations of stochastic local cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jie Peng , Weiyu Li , Qing Ling

We consider the following problem: two nodes want to reliably communicate in a dynamic multihop network where some nodes have been compromised, and may have a totally arbitrary and unpredictable behavior. These nodes are called Byzantine.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil , Xavier Défago

Reliable broadcast is an important primitive to ensure that a source node can reliably disseminate a message to all the non-faulty nodes in an asynchronous and failure-prone networked system. Byzantine Reliable Broadcast protocols were…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Yingjian Wu , Haochen Pan , Saptaparni Kumar , Lewis Tseng

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

We consider the problem of reliably broadcasting information in a multihop asynchronous network in the presence of Byzantine failures: some nodes may exhibit unpredictable malicious behavior. We focus on completely decentralized solutions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil

Self-stabilization is a versatile approach to fault-tolerance since it permits a distributed system to recover from any transient fault that arbitrarily corrupts the contents of all memories in the system. Byzantine tolerance is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Swan Dubois , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) has been extensively studied in distributed trustless systems to guarantee system's functioning when up to 1/3 Byzantine processes exist. Despite a plethora of previous work in BFT systems, they are mainly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Quan Nguyen , Andre Cronje

A self-stabilizing protocol tolerates by definition transient faults (faults of finite duration). Recently, a new class of self-stabilizing protocols that are able to tolerate a given number of permanent faults. In this paper, we focus on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Swan Dubois , Sébastien Tixeuil , Nini Zhu

We revisit Byzantine tolerant reliable broadcast with honest dealer algorithms in multi-hop networks. To tolerate Byzantine faulty nodes arbitrarily spread over the network, previous solutions require a factorial number of messages to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Sébastien Tixeuil

Distributed learning has many computational benefits but is vulnerable to attacks from a subset of devices transmitting incorrect information. This paper investigates Byzantine-resilient algorithms in a decentralized setting, where devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

Modern distributed systems face growing security threats, as attackers continuously enhance their skills and vulnerabilities span across the entire system stack, from hardware to the application layer. In the system design phase, fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Roy Friedman , Eviatar B. Procaccia , Sebastien Tixeuil

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

Given a network in which some pairs of nodes can communicate freely, and some subsets of the nodes could be faulty and colluding to disrupt communication, when can messages reliably be sent from one given node to another? We give a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Adam Hesterberg , Andrea Lincoln , Jayson Lynch

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus algorithms are at the core of providing safety and liveness guarantees for distributed systems that must operate in the presence of arbitrary failures. Recently, numerous new BFT algorithms have been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Gengrui Zhang , Fei Pan , Yunhao Mao , Sofia Tijanic , Michael Dang'ana , Shashank Motepalli , Shiquan Zhang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

In distributed computing, a Byzantine fault is a condition where a component behaves inconsistently, showing different symptoms to different components of the system. Consensus among the correct components can be reached by appropriately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Zoltán Guba , István Finta , Ákos Budai , Lóránt Farkas , Zoltán Zimborás , András Pályi

Secure networks rely upon players to maintain security and reliability. However not every player can be assumed to have total loyalty and one must use methods to uncover traitors in such networks. We use the original concept of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Liam Wagner , Stuart McDonald

The problem of designing distributed optimization algorithms that are resilient to Byzantine adversaries has received significant attention. For the Byzantine-resilient distributed optimization problem, the goal is to (approximately)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Shreyas Sundaram

Byzantine agreement protocols in asynchronous networks have gained renewed attention due to their independence from network timing assumptions to ensure termination. Traditional asynchronous Byzantine agreement protocols require every party…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nasit S Sony