Self-stabilizing Byzantine-Tolerant Recycling

Chryssis Georgiou, Michel Raynal, Elad M. Schiller

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Abstract

Numerous distributed applications, such as cloud computing and distributed ledgers, necessitate the system to invoke asynchronous consensus objects for an unbounded number of times, where the completion of one consensus instance is followed by the invocation of another. With only a constant number of objects available, object reuse becomes vital. We investigate the challenge of object recycling in the presence of Byzantine processes, which can deviate from the algorithm code in any manner. Our solution must also be self-stabilizing, as it is a powerful notion of fault tolerance. Self-stabilizing systems can recover automatically after the occurrence of arbitrary transient-faults, in addition to tolerating communication and (Byzantine or crash) process failures, provided the algorithm code remains intact. We provide a recycling mechanism for asynchronous objects that enables their reuse once their task has ended, and all non-faulty processes have retrieved the decided values. This mechanism relies on synchrony assumptions and builds on a new self-stabilizing Byzantine-tolerant synchronous multivalued consensus algorithm, along with a novel composition of existing techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems - 25th International Symposium, SSS 2023, Proceedings
EditorsShlomi Dolev, Baruch Schieber
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages518-535
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783031442735
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event25th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2023 - Jersey City, United States
Duration: 2 Oct 20234 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14310 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityJersey City
Period2/10/234/10/23

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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