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The celebrated result of Fischer, Lynch and Paterson is the fundamental lower bound for asynchronous fault tolerant computation: any 1-crash resilient asynchronous agreement protocol must have some (possibly measure zero) probability of not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ittai Abraham , Danny Dolev , Gilad Stern

We consider an asynchronous network of $n$ parties connected to each other via secure channels, up to $t$ of which are byzantine. We study common coin tossing, a task where the parties try to agree on an unpredictable random value, with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mose Mizrahi , Roger Wattenhofer

For reaching efficient deterministic synchronous Byzantine agreement upon partially connected networks, the traditional broadcast primitive is extended and integrated with a general framework. With this, the Byzantine agreement is extended…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Wei Lu

We address the problem of Reliable Broadcast in asynchronous message-passing systems with $n$ nodes, of which up to $t$ are malicious (faulty), in addition to a message adversary that can drop some of the messages sent by correct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Timothé Albouy , Davide Frey , Ran Gelles , Carmit Hazay , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller , François Taïani , Vassilis Zikas

Threshold guards are a basic primitive of many fault-tolerant algorithms that solve classical problems in distributed computing, such as reliable broadcast, two-phase commit, and consensus. Moreover, threshold guards can be found in recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Igor Konnov , Marijana Lazić , Ilina Stoilkovska , Josef Widder

The cooperative bandit problem is a multi-agent decision problem involving a group of agents that interact simultaneously with a multi-armed bandit, while communicating over a network with delays. The central idea in this problem is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-31 Abhimanyu Dubey , Alex Pentland

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

This paper focuses on decentralized stochastic optimization in the presence of Byzantine attacks. During the optimization process, an unknown number of malfunctioning or malicious workers, termed as Byzantine workers, disobey the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Zhaoxian Wu , Tianyi Chen , Qing Ling

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

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

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 paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in multi-agent decentralized optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function. The goal of a decentralized optimization algorithm is to allow the agents to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Nirupam Gupta , Thinh T. Doan , Nitin H. Vaidya

The strong Byzantine agreement (SBA) problem is defined among n processes, out of which t < n can be faulty and behave arbitrarily. SBA allows correct (non-faulty) processes to agree on a common value. Moreover, if all correct processes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Pierre Civit , Seth Gilbert , Rachid Guerraoui , Jovan Komatovic , Manuel Vidigueira

Causal ordering in an asynchronous system has many applications in distributed computing, including in replicated databases and real-time collaborative software. Previous work in the area focused on ordering point-to-point messages in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Anshuman Misra , Ajay Kshemkalyani

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

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed training (DT) under Byzantine attacks with communication constraints. While prior work has developed various robust aggregation rules at the server to enhance robustness to Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chengxi Li , Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Mikael Skoglund , Ming Xiao

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

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

Population protocols model information spreading and computation in network systems where pairwise node exchanges are determined by an external random scheduler and nodes have small memory. Most of the population protocols in the literature…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Costas Busch , Dariusz R. Kowalski

We study a well-known communication abstraction called Byzantine Reliable Broadcast (BRB). This abstraction is central in the design and implementation of fault-tolerant distributed systems, as many fault-tolerant distributed applications…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Romaric Duvignau , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller