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The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shlomi Dolev , Amit Hendin , Maurice Herlihy , Maria Potop Butucaru , Elad Michael Schiller

Byzantine Agreement is a key component in many distributed systems. While Dolev and Reischuk have proven a long time ago that quadratic communication complexity is necessary for worst-case runs, the question of what can be done in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Shir Cohen , Idit Keidar , Alexander Spiegelman

In this paper we present an open source, fully asynchronous, leaderless algorithm for reaching consensus in the presence of Byzantine faults in an asynchronous network. We prove the algorithm's correctness provided that less than a third of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pierre Chevalier , Bartlomiej Kaminski , Fraser Hutchison , Qi Ma , Spandan Sharma , Andreas Fackler , William J Buchanan

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental primitive in distributed systems that allows a set of processes to agree on a message broadcast by a dedicated process, even when some of them are malicious (Byzantine). It guarantees that no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Veronika Anikina , João Paulo Bezerra , Petr Kuznetsov , Liron Schiff , Stefan Schmid

King and Saia were the first to break the quadratic word complexity bound for Byzantine Agreement in synchronous systems against an adaptive adversary, and Algorand broke this bound with near-optimal resilience (first in the synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Shir Cohen , Idit Keidar , Alexander Spiegelman

Randomized algorithm that achieves multi-valued Byzantine agreement with high probability, and achieves optimal complexity.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-29 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a powerful primitive that allows a set of processes to agree on a message from a designated sender, even if some processes (including the sender) are Byzantine. Existing broadcast protocols for this setting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Rachid Guerraoui , Petr Kuznetsov , Matteo Monti , Matej Pavlovic , Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi , Yann Vonlanthen

We introduce a new quantum protocol for solving detectable Byzantine agreement (also called detectable broadcast) between three parties, and also for solving the detectable liar detection problem. The protocol is suggested by the properties…

Byzantine agreement, the underlying core of blockchain, aims to make every node in a decentralized network reach consensus. Classical Byzantine agreements unavoidably face two major problems. One is $1/3$ fault-tolerance bound, which means…

In this report, we investigate the multi-valued Byzantine consensus problem. We introduce two algorithms: the first one achieves traditional validity requirement for consensus, and the second one achieves a stronger "q-validity"…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

It is well known that without randomization, Byzantine agreement (BA) requires a linear number of rounds in the synchronous setting, while it is flat out impossible in the asynchronous setting. The primitive which allows to bypass the above…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Ran Cohen , Pouyan Forghani , Juan Garay , Rutvik Patel , Vassilis Zikas

The Byzantine agreement problem is considered to be a core problem in distributed systems. For example, Byzantine agreement is needed to build a blockchain, a totally ordered log of records. Blockchains are asynchronous distributed systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ye Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

In the wake of the decisive impossibility result of Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson for deterministic consensus protocols in the aynchronous model with just one failure, Ben-Or and Bracha demonstrated that the problem could be solved with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-08 Allison Lewko

Achieving agreement among distributed parties is a fundamental task in modern systems, underpinning applications such as consensus in blockchains, coordination in cloud infrastructure, and fault tolerance in critical services. However, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Anton Paramonov , Roger Wattenhofer

Numerous distributed tasks have to be handled in a setting where a fraction of nodes behaves Byzantine, that is, deviates arbitrarily from the intended protocol. Resilient, deterministic protocols rely on the detection of majorities to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Philipp Schneider

This paper presents a novel leaderless protocol (FPC-BI: Fast Probabilistic Consensus within Byzantine Infrastructures) with a low communicational complexity and which allows a set of nodes to come to a consensus on a value of a single bit.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Serguei Popov , William J Buchanan

The widespread adoption of large-scale machine learning models in recent years highlights the need for distributed computing for efficiency and scalability. This work introduces a novel distributed machine learning paradigm --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Horia Magureanu , Naïri Usher

In this paper we extend the \emph{Multidimensional Byzantine Agreement (MBA) Protocol}, a {leaderless} Byzantine agreement for lists of arbitrary values, into a protocol suitable for wide gossiping networks: \emph{Cob}. This generalization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Andrea Flamini , Riccardo Longo , Alessio Meneghetti

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