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Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols for dynamically available systems face a critical challenge: balancing latency and security in fluctuating node participation. Existing solutions often require multiple rounds of voting per…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pengkun Ren , Hai Dong , Zahir Tari , Pengcheng Zhang

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

The Dolev-Reischuk bound says that any deterministic Byzantine consensus protocol has (at least) quadratic communication complexity in the worst case. While it has been shown that the bound is tight in synchronous environments, it is still…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Pierre Civit , Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Seth Gilbert , Vincent Gramoli , Rachid Guerraoui , Jovan Komatovic , Manuel Vidigueira

We analyze the impact of transient and Byzantine faults on the construction of a maximal independent set in a general network. We adapt the self-stabilizing algorithm presented by Turau \cite{turau2007linear} for computing such a vertex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Johanne Cohen , Laurence Pilard , Jonas Sénizergues

This paper studies the {\em good-case latency} of {\em unauthenticated} Byzantine fault-tolerant broadcast, which measures the time it takes for all non-faulty parties to commit given a non-faulty broadcaster. For both asynchrony and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ittai Abraham , Ling Ren , Zhuolun Xiang

We present ezBFT, a novel leaderless, distributed consensus protocol capable of tolerating byzantine faults. ezBFT's main goal is to minimize the client-side latency in WAN deployments. It achieves this by (i) having no designated primary…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Balaji Arun , Sebastiano Peluso , Binoy Ravindran

We analyze the impact of transient and Byzantine faults on the construction of a maximal independent set in a general network. We adapt the self-stabilizing algorithm presented by Turau `for computing such a vertex set. Our algorithm is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Johanne Cohen , Laurence Pilard , François Pirot , Jonas Sénizergues

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in distributed linear regression in a multi-agent system. However, the proposed algorithms are given for a more general class of distributed optimization problems, of which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

PermitBFT establishes a permissioned byzantine ledger in the partially synchronous networking model. For n replicas, PermitBFT tolerates up to f < n/3 byzantine replicas. It is the first BFT protocol to achieve a latency of just 2 message…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Roland Schmid , Roger Wattenhofer

Byzantine general problem is the core problem of the consensus algorithm, and many protocols are proposed recently to improve the decentralization level, the performance and the security of the blockchain. There are two challenging issues…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Tzu-Wei Chao , Hao Chung , Po-Chun Kuo

This paper studies the message complexity of authenticated Byzantine agreement (BA) in synchronous, fully-connected distributed networks under an honest majority. We focus on the so-called {\em implicit} Byzantine agreement problem where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla

One of the most celebrated problems of fault-tolerant distributed computing is the consensus problem. It was shown to abstract a myriad of problems in which processes have to agree on a single value. Consensus applications include…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Romaric Duvignau , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller

Service replication distributes an application over many processes for tolerating faults, attacks, and misbehavior among a subset of the processes. The established state-machine replication paradigm inherently requires the application to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Christian Cachin , Simon Schubert , Marko Vukolić

Blockchain protocols typically aspire to run in the permissionless setting, in which nodes are owned and operated by a large number of diverse and unknown entities, with each node free to start or stop running the protocol at any time. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Andrew Lewis-Pye , Tim Roughgarden

We consider the problem of reliably broadcasting information in a multihop asynchronous network, despite the presence of Byzantine failures: some nodes are malicious and behave arbitrarly. We focus on non-cryptographic solutions. Most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil

The resilient consensus problem is investigated in this paper for a class of networked Euler-Lagrange systems with event-triggered communication in the presence of Byzantine attacks. One challenge that we face in addressing the considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yuliang Fu , Guanghui Wen , Dan Zhao , Wei Xing Zheng , Xiaolei Li

State Machine Replication (SMR) solutions often divide time into rounds, with a designated leader driving decisions in each round. Progress is guaranteed once all correct processes synchronize to the same round, and the leader of that round…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Oded Naor , Idit Keidar

In extending fast digital clock synchronization to the bounded-delay model, the expected constant time Byzantine pulse resynchronization problem is investigated. In this problem, the synchronized state of the system should not only be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Wei Lu

We study resilient quantized consensus in multi-agent systems, where some agents may malfunction. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued states, and the agents' communication is subject to asynchronous updates and time delays.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

In this work, we explore iterative approximate Byzantine consensus algorithms that do not make explicit use of the global parameter of the graph, i.e., the upper-bound on the number of faults, f.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Lewis Tseng , Nitin H. Vaidya