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We show that asynchronous $t$ faults Byzantine system is equivalent to asynchronous $t$-resilient system, where unbeknownst to all, the private inputs of at most $t$ processors were altered and installed by a malicious oracle. The immediate ramification is that dealing with asynchronous Byzantine systems does not call for new topological methods, as was recently employed by various researchers: Asynchronous Byzantine is a standard asynchronous system with an input caveat. It also shows that two recent independent investigations of vector $epsilon$-agreement in the Byzantine model, and then in the fail-stop model, one was superfluous - in these problems the change of $t$ inputs allowed in the Byzantine has no effect compared to the fail-stop case. This result was motivated by the aim of casting any asynchronous system as a synchronous system where all processors are correct and it is the communication substrate in the form of message-adversary that misbehaves. Thus, in addition, we get such a characterization for the asynchronous Byzantine system.
We propose the first deterministic algorithm that tolerates up to $f$ byzantine faults in $3f+1$-sized networks and performs in the asynchronous CORDA model. Our solution matches the previously established lower bound for the semi-synchronous ATOM model on the number of tolerated Byzantine robots. Our algorithm works under bounded scheduling assumptions for oblivious robots moving in a uni-dimensional space.
An immediate snapshot object is a high level communication object, built on top of a read/write distributed system in which all except one processes may crash. It allows a process to write a value and obtain a set of values that represent a snapshot of the values written to the object, occurring immediately after the write step. Considering an $n$-process model in which up to $t$ processes may crash, this paper introduces first the $k$-resilient immediate snapshot object, which is a natural generalization of the basic immediate snapshot (which corresponds to the case $k=t=n-1$). In addition to the set containment properties of the basic immediate snapshot, a $k$-resilient immediate snapshot object requires that each set returned to a process contains at least $(n-k)$ pairs. The paper first shows that, for $k,t<n-1$, $k$-resilient immediate snapshot is impossible in asynchronous read/write systems. %Then the paper investigates the space of objects that %are impossible to solve in $n$-process $t$-crash read/write systems. Then the paper investigates a model of computation where the processes communicate with each other by accessing $k$-immediate snapshot objects, and shows that this model is stronger than the $t$-crash model. Considering the space of $x$-set agreement problems (which are impossible to solve in systems such that $xleq t$), the paper shows then that $x$-set agreement can be solved in read/write systems enriched with $k$-immediate snapshot objects for $x=max(1,t+k-(n-2))$. It also shows that, in these systems, $k$-resilient immediate snapshot and consensus are equivalent when $1leq t<n/2$ and $tleq kleq (n-1)-t$. Hence, %thanks to the problem map it provides, the paper establishes strong relations linking fundamental distributed computing objects (one related to communication, the other to agreement), which are impossible to solve in pure read/write systems.
A task is a distributed problem for $n$ processes, in which each process starts with a private input value, communicates with other processes, and eventually decides an output value. A task is colorless if each process can adopt the input or output value of another process. Colorless tasks are well studied in the non-anonymous shared-memory model where each process has a distinct identifier that can be used to access a single-writer/multi-reader shared register. In the anonymous case, where processes have no identifiers and communicate through multi-writer/multi-reader registers, there is a recent topological characterization of the colorless tasks that are solvable when any number of asynchronous processes may crash. In this paper we study the case where at most $t$ processes may crash, where $1 le t < n$. We prove that a colorless task is $t$-resilient solvable non-anonymously if and only if it is $t$-resilient solvable anonymously. This implies a complete characterization of colorless anonymous t-resilient asynchronous task computability.
In this paper we are interested in bounding the number of instructions taken to process transactions. The main result is a multiversion transactional system that supports constant delay (extra instructions beyond running in isolation) for all read-only transactions, delay equal to the number of processes for writing transactions that are not concurrent with other writers, and lock-freedom for concurrent writers. The system supports precise garbage collection in th
We present a general technique for garbage collecting o