10 Search Results for "Yandamuri, Sravya"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.7
Mobile Byzantine Agreement in a Trusted World

Authors: Bo Pan and Maria Potop-Butucaru

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 361, 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)

Abstract
In this paper, we address the Byzantine Agreement problem in synchronous systems where Byzantine agents can move from process to process, corrupting their host. We focus on two representative models: Garay’s and Buhrman’s models. In Garay’s model, when a process has been left by the Byzantine agent, it enters a cured state, is aware of its condition, and can remain silent for a round to prevent the dissemination of incorrect information. In Buhrman’s model, a Byzantine agent moves together with the message. It has been shown that solving Byzantine Agreement requires at least 4t + 1 processes in Garay’s model, and at least 3t + 1 in Buhrman’s model. In this paper, we aim to increase the tolerance to mobile Byzantine agents by integrating a trusted counter abstraction into both models. This abstraction prevents nodes from equivocating. In the new models, we prove that at least 3t+1, respectively 2t+1 processors are needed to tolerate t mobile Byzantine agents. Furthermore, we propose novel Mobile Byzantine Agreement algorithms that match these new lower bounds for both Garay’s and Buhrman’s models, achieving agreement in 𝒪(n) synchronous rounds.
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Bo Pan and Maria Potop-Butucaru. Mobile Byzantine Agreement in a Trusted World. In 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 361, pp. 7:1-7:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{pan_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.7,
  author =	{Pan, Bo and Potop-Butucaru, Maria},
  title =	{{Mobile Byzantine Agreement in a Trusted World}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-409-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{361},
  editor =	{Arusoaie, Andrei and Onica, Emanuel and Spear, Michael and Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251809},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Byzantine Agreement, Mobile Faults, Trusted Abstractions}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.8
Weaker Assumptions for Asymmetric Trust

Authors: Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Simon Holmgaard Kamp, and Juan Villacis

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 361, 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)

Abstract
In distributed systems with asymmetric trust, each participant is free to make its own trust assumptions about others, captured by an asymmetric quorum system. This contrasts with ordinary, symmetric quorum systems and threshold models, where trust assumptions are uniformly shared among participants. Fundamental problems like reliable broadcast and consensus are unsolvable in the asymmetric model if quorum systems satisfy only the classical properties of consistency and availability. Existing approaches overcome this by introducing stronger assumptions. We show that some of these assumptions are overly restrictive, so much so that they effectively eliminate the benefits of asymmetric trust. To address this, we propose a new approach to characterize asymmetric problems and, building upon it, present algorithms for reliable broadcast and consensus that require weaker assumptions than previous solutions. Our methods are general and can be extended to other core problems in systems with asymmetric trust.
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Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Simon Holmgaard Kamp, and Juan Villacis. Weaker Assumptions for Asymmetric Trust. In 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 361, pp. 8:1-8:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{amoressesar_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.8,
  author =	{Amores-Sesar, Ignacio and Cachin, Christian and Kamp, Simon Holmgaard and Villacis, Juan},
  title =	{{Weaker Assumptions for Asymmetric Trust}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-409-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{361},
  editor =	{Arusoaie, Andrei and Onica, Emanuel and Spear, Michael and Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251812},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Asymmetric Trust, Quorum Systems, Reliable Broadcast, Consensus}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.24
On Time-Optimal, Fault-Tolerant Algorithms for Connected Consensus Beyond Grade Two

Authors: Alan Ernesto Arteaga Vázquez

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 361, 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)

Abstract
A common question in the asynchronous model is whether some given notion of agreement between processes is achievable. Usually, we formalise such agreement notions in the form of agreement problems. Some of these problems also receive the name of coordination primitives. Several fault-tolerant algorithms in asynchronous systems rely upon the use of different primitives as building blocks, such as adopt-commit, crusader agreement, or graded broadcast. Recently, the connected consensus problem - a form of agreement over a specific family of graphs parametrised by a positive integer R- was introduced. This problem unifies the three mentioned primitives while extending them for multi-valued inputs. Moreover, the problem is equipped with a security condition called binding, which limits the effect of malicious processes over the decision of correct parties. While fault-tolerant connected consensus algorithms for R = 1 and R = 2 are known, the existence of algorithmic solutions for any positive integer parameter remained an open question. In this work, we introduce a pair of fault-tolerant algorithms for connected consensus when the R parameter is any positive integer. We introduce a crash-resilient algorithm, which is optimal with respect to the maximum number of possible faulty processes. Our second algorithm is resilient to Byzantine failures; whose failure-resilience is optimal for a specific class of algorithms. Both algorithms satisfy the binding property and match the best known time complexities achieved for the R = 1 and R = 2 cases, further achieving time optimality for the general case in the crash-failure setting, and asymptotic time optimality in the Byzantine scenario.
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Alan Ernesto Arteaga Vázquez. On Time-Optimal, Fault-Tolerant Algorithms for Connected Consensus Beyond Grade Two. In 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 361, pp. 24:1-24:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{arteagavazquez:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.24,
  author =	{Arteaga V\'{a}zquez, Alan Ernesto},
  title =	{{On Time-Optimal, Fault-Tolerant Algorithms for Connected Consensus Beyond Grade Two}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-409-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{361},
  editor =	{Arusoaie, Andrei and Onica, Emanuel and Spear, Michael and Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251973},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximate Agreement, Binding, Connected Consensus}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.6
Hierarchical Consensus: Scalability Through Optimism and Weak Liveness

Authors: Pedro Antonino, Antoine Durand, and A. W. Roscoe

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 356, 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)

Abstract
Scalability is a central concern of Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) distributed protocols. The ubiquitous approach to work around the well-known Dolev-Reischuk Ω(n²) communication complexity lower bound is to use a random selection process to draw a hopefully small committee from a population of agents to run the communication-heavy protocol. We propose a notion of hierarchical consensus that combines two sub-protocols: an optimistic primary sub-protocol that can tolerate less than 1/2 failures and a fallback secondary protocol that can tolerate less than 1/3 failures; we achieve the higher failure threshold by requiring a weaker notion of liveness for the primary. This distinction between the level of fault tolerance between primary and secondary is reflected in the size of committees implementing these protocols. For a population of agents with close to 2/3 of honest agents, we need to select a committee with hundreds of agents to reach the level of tolerance expected for the primary, whereas we need thousands to reach the level expected for the secondary with a very small probability of error ε. Our hierarchical construct is such that if the primary comes to a decision, it can simply propagate it to the secondary protocol, so it does not need to properly engage in an agreement protocol independently. Our architecture is flexible and allows us to use our technique for most protocols that are based on random sampling. By studying hierarchical protocols, we discovered new theoretical results of independent interest. Specifically, the ability to handover from a primary protocol requires a new Justifiability property that allows agents to pre-decide on a value, such that if the protocol decides, it must be on that pre-decided value.
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Pedro Antonino, Antoine Durand, and A. W. Roscoe. Hierarchical Consensus: Scalability Through Optimism and Weak Liveness. In 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 356, pp. 6:1-6:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{antonino_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2025.6,
  author =	{Antonino, Pedro and Durand, Antoine and Roscoe, A. W.},
  title =	{{Hierarchical Consensus: Scalability Through Optimism and Weak Liveness}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-402-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{356},
  editor =	{Kowalski, Dariusz R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248232},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hierarchical, Handover, Justifiability, Consensus, Distributed Systems, Blockchain}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.1
ABEL: Perfect Asynchronous Byzantine Extension from List-Decoding

Authors: Ittai Abraham and Gilad Asharov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 356, 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)

Abstract
Asynchronous byzantine agreement extension studies the message complexity of L-bit multivalued asynchronous byzantine agreement given access to a binary asynchronous Byzantine agreement protocol. We prove that asynchronous byzantine agreement extension can be solved with perfect security and optimal resilience in O(nL+n² log n) total communication (in bits) in addition to a single call to a binary asynchronous Byzantine agreement protocol. For L = O(n log n), this gives an asymptotically optimal protocol, resolving a question that remained open for nearly two decades. List decoding is a fundamental concept in theoretical computer science and cryptography, enabling error correction beyond the unique decoding radius and playing a critical role in constructing robust codes, hardness amplification, and secure cryptographic protocols. A key novelty of our perfectly secure and optimally resilient asynchronous byzantine agreement extension protocol is that it uses list decoding - making a striking new connection between list decoding and asynchronous Byzantine agreement.
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Ittai Abraham and Gilad Asharov. ABEL: Perfect Asynchronous Byzantine Extension from List-Decoding. In 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 356, pp. 1:1-1:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{abraham_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2025.1,
  author =	{Abraham, Ittai and Asharov, Gilad},
  title =	{{ABEL: Perfect Asynchronous Byzantine Extension from List-Decoding}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-402-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{356},
  editor =	{Kowalski, Dariusz R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248185},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement, Perfect Security}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.15
Asynchronous Latency and Fast Atomic Snapshot

Authors: João Paulo Bezerra, Luciano Freitas, Petr Kuznetsov, and Matthieu Rambaud

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 356, 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)

Abstract
This paper introduces a novel, fast atomic-snapshot protocol for asynchronous message-passing systems. In the process of defining what "fast" means exactly, we spot a few interesting issues that arise when conventional time metrics are applied to long-lived asynchronous algorithms. We reveal some gaps in latency claims made in earlier work on snapshot algorithms, which hamper their comparative time-complexity analysis. We then come up with a new unifying time-complexity metric that captures the latency of an operation in an asynchronous, long-lived implementation. This allows us to formally grasp latency improvements of our atomic-snapshot algorithm with respect to the state-of-the-art protocols: optimal latency in fault-free runs without contention, short constant latency in fault-free runs with contention, the worst-case latency proportional to the number of active concurrent failures, and constant amortized latency.
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João Paulo Bezerra, Luciano Freitas, Petr Kuznetsov, and Matthieu Rambaud. Asynchronous Latency and Fast Atomic Snapshot. In 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 356, pp. 15:1-15:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bezerra_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2025.15,
  author =	{Bezerra, Jo\~{a}o Paulo and Freitas, Luciano and Kuznetsov, Petr and Rambaud, Matthieu},
  title =	{{Asynchronous Latency and Fast Atomic Snapshot}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-402-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{356},
  editor =	{Kowalski, Dariusz R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248326},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Asynchronous systems, time complexity, atomic snapshot, crash faults}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.20
How Robust Are Synchronous Consensus Protocols?

Authors: Nenad Milošević, Daniel Cason, Zarko Milošević, and Fernando Pedone

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 324, 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)

Abstract
Synchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols have long been a reality in an academic setting, yet their practicality remains debated. The main concern of skeptics of synchronous systems is that the correctness of these protocols depends on the timely delivery of all messages within a predefined synchronous bound, Δ. This dependency creates a challenging tradeoff between protocol correctness and performance, as Δ directly impacts both. In this paper, we examine this tradeoff in detail. Specifically, we introduce BoundBFT, a new synchronous BFT consensus protocol. We analyze how BoundBFT’s correctness can be compromised and use this analysis to design and implement the most effective attack strategies that malicious processes could employ. Furthermore, we experimentally determine the synchronous bound Δ that provides sufficient confidence in maintaining protocol correctness even in the presence of malicious replicas. Finally, we apply this discovered bound to BoundBFT, evaluate its performance, and compare it to state-of-the-art synchronous and partially synchronous protocols.
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Nenad Milošević, Daniel Cason, Zarko Milošević, and Fernando Pedone. How Robust Are Synchronous Consensus Protocols?. In 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 324, pp. 20:1-20:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{milosevic_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.20,
  author =	{Milo\v{s}evi\'{c}, Nenad and Cason, Daniel and Milo\v{s}evi\'{c}, Zarko and Pedone, Fernando},
  title =	{{How Robust Are Synchronous Consensus Protocols?}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-360-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{324},
  editor =	{Bonomi, Silvia and Galletta, Letterio and Rivi\`{e}re, Etienne and Schiavoni, Valerio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-225560},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Synchronous Consensus, Byzantine Failures, Blockchain}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.29
On the Round Complexity of Asynchronous Crusader Agreement

Authors: Ittai Abraham, Naama Ben-David, Gilad Stern, and Sravya Yandamuri

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 286, 27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2023)

Abstract
We present new lower and upper bounds on the number of communication rounds required for asynchronous Crusader Agreement (CA) and Binding Crusader Agreement (BCA), two primitives that are used for solving binary consensus. We show results for the information theoretic and authenticated settings. In doing so, we present a generic model for proving round complexity lower bounds in the asynchronous setting. In some settings, our attempts to prove lower bounds on round complexity fail. Instead, we show new, tight, rather surprising round complexity upper bounds for Byzantine fault tolerant BCA with and without a PKI setup.
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Ittai Abraham, Naama Ben-David, Gilad Stern, and Sravya Yandamuri. On the Round Complexity of Asynchronous Crusader Agreement. In 27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 286, pp. 29:1-29:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{abraham_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.29,
  author =	{Abraham, Ittai and Ben-David, Naama and Stern, Gilad and Yandamuri, Sravya},
  title =	{{On the Round Complexity of Asynchronous Crusader Agreement}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2023)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-308-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{286},
  editor =	{Bessani, Alysson and D\'{e}fago, Xavier and Nakamura, Junya and Wada, Koichi and Yamauchi, Yukiko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-195195},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: lower bounds, asynchronous protocols, round complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.24
Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption

Authors: Sravya Yandamuri, Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, and Michael K. Reiter

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 253, 26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022)

Abstract
Agreement protocols for partially synchronous networks tolerate fewer than one-third Byzantine faults. If parties are equipped with trusted hardware that prevents equivocation, then fault tolerance can be improved to fewer than one-half Byzantine faults, but typically at the cost of increased communication complexity. In this work, we present results that use small trusted hardware without worsening communication complexity assuming the adversary controls a fraction of the network that is less than one-half. In particular, we show a version of HotStuff that retains linear communication complexity in each view, leveraging trusted hardware to tolerate a minority of corruptions. Our result uses expander graph techniques to achieve efficient communication in a manner that may be of independent interest.
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Sravya Yandamuri, Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, and Michael K. Reiter. Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption. In 26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 253, pp. 24:1-24:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{yandamuri_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.24,
  author =	{Yandamuri, Sravya and Abraham, Ittai and Nayak, Kartik and Reiter, Michael K.},
  title =	{{Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-265-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{253},
  editor =	{Hillel, Eshcar and Palmieri, Roberto and Rivi\`{e}re, Etienne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-176448},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: communication complexity, consensus, trusted hardware}
}
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Brief Announcement
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2021.62
Brief Announcement: Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption

Authors: Sravya Yandamuri, Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, and Michael Reiter

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 209, 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021)

Abstract
Small trusted hardware primitives can improve fault tolerance of Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols to one-half faults. However, existing works achieve this at the cost of increased communication complexity. In this work, we explore the design of communication-efficient BFT protocols that can boost fault tolerance to one-half without worsening communication complexity. Our results include a version of HotStuff that retains linear communication complexity in each view and a version of the VABA protocol with quadratic communication, both leveraging trusted hardware to tolerate a minority of corruptions. As a building block, we present communication-efficient provable broadcast, a core broadcast primitive with increased fault tolerance. Our results use expander graphs to achieve efficient communication in a manner that may be of independent interest.
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Sravya Yandamuri, Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, and Michael Reiter. Brief Announcement: Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption. In 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 209, pp. 62:1-62:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{yandamuri_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2021.62,
  author =	{Yandamuri, Sravya and Abraham, Ittai and Nayak, Kartik and Reiter, Michael},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021)},
  pages =	{62:1--62:4},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-210-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{209},
  editor =	{Gilbert, Seth},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2021.62},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-148647},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2021.62},
  annote =	{Keywords: communication complexity, consensus, trusted hardware}
}
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