loading...
 This Article 
   
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems (DEPCOS-RELCOMEX'06)
Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Agent Systems
Szklarska Poreba, Poland
May 25-May 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2565-2
Tadashi Araragi, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
This paper presents a Byzantine fault tolerance method for agent systems. We extend Castro and Liskov?s well-known practical Byzantine fault tolerance method for the serverclient model to a method for the agent system model. There are two main differences between the methods. First, in agent systems we have to create replicas on both sides of the communicating agents, while in the server-client model of Castro and Liskov?s method, replicas are created only on the server side, and the client is assumed to be non-faulty or is treated differently from a replica model. Second, due to the autonomous behavior of agents, we have to synchronize the timing of the receiving of messages among replicas. Agents decide their actions based on their current state of knowledge and do not wait indefinitely for messages that may not reach them.
Citation:
Tadashi Araragi, "Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Agent Systems," depcos-relcomex, pp.232-239, International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems (DEPCOS-RELCOMEX'06), 2006
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.