Byzantine Fault Tolerance Clause Samples

The Byzantine Fault Tolerance clause establishes mechanisms to ensure that a system or network can continue to operate correctly even if some of its components fail or act maliciously. In practice, this clause typically applies to distributed systems, such as blockchain networks, where nodes may provide conflicting or incorrect information due to errors or intentional attacks. By specifying protocols for consensus and error handling, the clause helps maintain system reliability and trustworthiness, addressing the risk of faulty or compromised participants undermining the integrity of the system.
Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Ph.d., MIT, January 2001. Also as Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-817.
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Byzantine Fault Tolerance. In Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Operating Sys. Design and Implem., pp. 173–186.
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Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Detecting a faulty process is easier – 2k+1 to detect k faults • Reaching agreement is harder – Need 3k+1 processes (2/3rd majority needed to eliminate the faulty processes) • Implications on real systems: – How many replicas? – Separating agreement from execution provides savings • If message delivery is unbounded, – No agreement can be reached even if one process fails – Slow process indistinguishable from a faulty one • BAR Fault Tolerance – Until now: nodes are byzantine or collaborative – New model: Byzantine, Altruistic and Rational – Rational nodes: report timeouts etc Compsci 677: Distributed and OS Lec. 18 13 • Issues were discussed in Lecture 3 – Use reliable transport protocols (TCP) or handle at the application layer • RPC semantics in the presence of failures • Possibilities – Client unable to locate server – Lost request messages t – Server crashes after receiving reques – Lost reply messages – Client crashes after sending request •Reliable multicast – Lost messages => need to retransmit •Possibilities – ACK-based schemes • Sender can become bottleneck – NACK-based schemes Compsci 677: Distributed and OS Lec. 18 15 • Broadcast (or multicast) order important for replication • FIFO broadcast: if a process sends m1 and then m2, all other processes receive m1 before m2 • Totally ordered: If a process receives m1 before m2 (regardless of sender), all processes receive m1 before m2 • Does not imply FIFO, all processes just agree on order • Causally ordered: if send(m1)->send (m2) => recv(m1)-> recv (m2) • Broadcast requests to all replicas using totally ordered broadcast; replicas apply requests in order. •Atomic multicast: a guarantee that all process received the message or none at all – Replicated database example – Need to detect which updates have been missed by a faulty process •Problem: how to handle process crashes? •Solution: group view – Each message is uniquely associated with a group of processes • View of the process group when message was sent • All processes in the group should have the same view (and agree on it) Virtually Synchronous Multicast Compsci 677: Distributed and OS Lec. 18 17
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Byzantine Fault Tolerance. ‌ In this subsection, we describe a key building block, namely the distributed consensus protocols in Byzantine [28] settings and highlight their importance to Blockchain systems. While there is a vast literature on Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus, we focus our discussion on PBFT and IBFT, which stand out for the following reasons. The former is the foundation for most of the research in this area, while the latter is implemented by many Blockchain systems today.
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