Tight bounds for shared memory systems accessed by byzantine processes

Michael Merritt, Omer Reingold, Gadi Taubenfeld, Rebecca N. Wright

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Abstract

We provide efficient constructions and tight bounds for shared memory systems accessed by n processes, up to t of which may exhibit Byzantine faults, in a model previously explored by Malkhi et al. [MMRT00]. We show that sticky bits are universal in the Byzantine failure model for n ≥ 3t + 1, an improvement over the previous result requiring n ≥ (2t+1)(t+1). Our result follows from a new strong consensus construction that uses sticky bits and tolerates t Byzantine failures among n processes for any n ≥ 3t + 1, the best possible bound on n for strong consensus. We also present tight bounds on the efficiency of implementations of strong consensus objects from sticky bits and similar primitive objects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDistributed Computing - 16th International Conference, DISC 2002, Proceedings
EditorsDahlia Malkhi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages222-236
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)3540000739, 9783540000730
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
Event16th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2002 - Toulouse, France
Duration: 28 Oct 200230 Oct 2002

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2508
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2002
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period28/10/0230/10/02

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.

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