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Article Dans Une Revue Distributed Computing Année : 2013

Byzantine agreement with homonyms

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So far, the distributed computing community has either assumed that all the processes of a distributed system have distinct identifiers or, more rarely, that the processes are anonymous and have no identifiers. These are two extremes of the same general model: namely, n processes use ℓ different identifiers, where 1≤ℓ≤n. In this paper, we ask how many identifiers are actually needed to reach agreement in a distributed system with t Byzantine processes. We show that having 3t+1 identifiers is necessary and sufficient for agreement in the synchronous case but, more surprisingly, the number of identifiers must be greater than n+3t2 in the partially synchronous case. This demonstrates two differences from the classical model (which has ℓ=n): there are situations where relaxing synchrony to partial synchrony renders agreement impossible; and, in the partially synchronous case, increasing the number of correct processes can actually make it harder to reach agreement. The impossibility proofs use the fact that a Byzantine process can send multiple messages to the same recipient in a round. We show that removing this ability makes agreement easier: then, t+1 identifiers are sufficient for agreement, even in the partially synchronous model, assuming processes can count the number of messages with the same identifier they receive in a round.

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hal-00839625 , version 1 (28-06-2013)

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Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Eric Ruppert, et al.. Byzantine agreement with homonyms. Distributed Computing, 2013, 26 (5-6), pp.321-340. ⟨10.1007/s00446-013-0190-3⟩. ⟨hal-00839625⟩
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