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We present a device-independent quantum scheme for the {\em Byzantine Generals} problem. The protocol is for three parties. Party $C$ is to send two identical one bit messages to parties $A$ and $B$. The receivers $A$ and $B$ may exchange…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Ramij Rahaman , Marcin Wieśniak , Marek Żukowski

In a recent paper, Jaggi et al. (INFOCOM 2007), presented a distributed polynomial-time rate-optimal network-coding scheme that works in the presence of Byzantine faults. We revisit their adversarial models and augment them with three,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-06 Leah Nutman , Michael Langberg

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

In this paper, we present an efficient deterministic algorithm for consensus in presence of Byzantine failures. Our algorithm achieves consensus on an $L$-bit value with communication complexity $O(nL + n^4 L^{0.5} + n^6)$ bits, in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-01-19 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

Quantum Byzantine Agreement (QBA), a cornerstone of quantum blockchain, offers inherent advantages in security and fault tolerance over classical protocols, guaranteed by the laws of quantum mechanics. However, existing multiparty QBA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Chen-Xun Weng , Ming-Yang Li , Shi-Gen Li , Mengya Zhu , Xiao-Ran Sun , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

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

Consensus, abstracting a myriad of problems in which processes have to agree on a single value, is one of the most celebrated problems of fault-tolerant distributed computing. Consensus applications include fundamental services for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Romaric Duvignau , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller

Reliable broadcast is a communication primitive guaranteeing, intuitively, that all processes in a distributed system deliver the same set of messages. The reason why this primitive is appealing is twofold: (i) we can implement it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Rachid Guerraoui , Jovan Komatovic , Petr Kuznetsov , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi , Andrei Tonkikh

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

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the throughput of Byzantine agreement, given that the sum capacity of all links in between nodes in the system is finite. We have proposed a highly efficient Byzantine agreement algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

Byzantine consensus is a classical problem in distributed computing. Each node in a synchronous system starts with a binary input. The goal is to reach agreement in the presence of Byzantine faulty nodes. We consider the setting where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Muhammad Samir Khan , Nitin H. Vaidya

Low latency is one of the desired properties for partially synchronous Byzantine consensus protocols. Previous protocols have achieved consensus with just two communication steps either by reducing the bound on the number of faults the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Chen Feng , Victoria Lemieux

The practical Byzantine fault tolerant (PBFT) consensus mechanism is one of the most basic consensus algorithms (or protocols) in blockchain technologies, thus its performance evaluation is an interesting and challenging topic due to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Fan-Qi Ma , Quan-Lin Li , Yi-Han Liu , Yan-Xia Chang

Optimum decision fusion in the presence of malicious nodes - often referred to as Byzantines - is hindered by the necessity of exactly knowing the statistical behavior of Byzantines. By focusing on a simple, yet widely studied, set-up in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Andrea Abrardo , Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Benedetta Tondi

Blockchain technology offers a decentralized and secure method for storing and authenticating data, rendering it well-suited for various applications such as digital currencies, supply chain management, and voting systems. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mohammad R. Shakournia , Pooya Jamshidi , Hamid Reza Faragardi , Nasser Yazdani

The problem of Byzantine consensus has been key to designing secure distributed systems. However, it is particularly difficult, mainly due to the presence of Byzantine processes that act arbitrarily and the unknown message delays in general…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa , Vincent Gramoli

In this paper, we present Raptr--a Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication (BFT SMR) protocol that combines strong robustness with high throughput, while attaining near-optimal theoretical latency. Raptr delivers exceptionally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Andrei Tonkikh , Balaji Arun , Zhuolun Xiang , Zekun Li , Alexander Spiegelman

The Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA) achieves rapid consensus by relying on overlapping quorum slices. But this architecture leads to a high dependence on the availability of validators when about one fourth of validators go down, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Erdhi Widyarto Nugroho , R. Rizal Isnanto , Luhur Bayuaji

Federated learning allows each client to keep its data locally when training machine learning models in a distributed setting. Significant recent research established the requirements that the input must satisfy in order to guarantee…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mélanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijević , Stefan Schmid