Renaming in synchronous message passing systems with Byzantine failures

Michael Okun*, Amnon Barak, Eli Gafni

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Abstract

We study the renaming problem in a fully connected synchronous network with Byzantine failures. We show that when the original namespace of the processors is unbounded, this problem cannot be solved in an a priori bounded number of rounds for t ≥(n+n mod 3)/3, where n is the size of the network and t is the number of failures. On the other hand, for n > 3t, we present a Byzantine renaming algorithm that runs in O(lg n) rounds. In addition, we present a fast, efficient strong renaming algorithm for n > t, which runs in O(lg 2[N0/n]rounds, where N 0 is the value of the highest identifier among all the correct processors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)403-413
Number of pages11
JournalDistributed Computing
Volume20
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2008

Keywords

  • Byzantine failures
  • Renaming problem
  • Synchronous message passing model

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