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Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2007)
Decoupled Quorum-Based Byzantine-Resilient Coordination in Open Distributed Systems
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 12-July 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2922-4
Alysson Neves Bessani, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Joni da Silva Fraga, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lau Cheuk Lung, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Brazil
Open distributed systems are typically composed by an unknown number of processes running in heterogeneous hosts. Their communication often requires tolerance to temporary disconnections and security against malicious actions. Tuple spaces are a well-known coordination model for this sort of systems. They can support communication that is decoupled both in time and space. There are currently several implementations of distributed fault-tolerant tuple spaces but they are not Byzantine-resilient, i.e., they do not provide a correct service if some replicas are attacked and start to misbehave. This paper presents an efficient implementation of LBTS, a linearizable Byzantine fault-tolerant tuple space. LBTS uses a novel Byzantine quorum systems replication technique in which most operations are implemented by quorum protocols while stronger operations are implemented by more expensive protocols based on consensus. LBTS is linearizable and wait-free, showing interesting performance gains when compared to a similar construction based on state machine replication.
Citation:
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Joni da Silva Fraga, Lau Cheuk Lung, "Decoupled Quorum-Based Byzantine-Resilient Coordination in Open Distributed Systems," nca, pp.231-238, Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2007), 2007
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