On precision bound of distributed fault-tolerant sensor fusion algorithms

B Ao, Y Wang, L Yu, RR Brooks… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Sensors have limited precision and accuracy. They extract data from the physical
environment, which contains noise. The goal of sensor fusion is to make the final decision …

The time complexity of consensus under oblivious message adversaries

K Winkler, A Paz, H Rincon Galeana… - 14th innovations in …, 2023 - drops.dagstuhl.de
We study the problem of solving consensus in synchronous directed dynamic networks, in
which communication is controlled by an oblivious message adversary that picks the …

Recent results on fault-tolerant consensus in message-passing networks

L Tseng - … Colloquium, SIROCCO 2016, Helsinki, Finland, July …, 2016 - Springer
Fault-tolerant consensus has been studied extensively in the literature, because it is one of
the important distributed primitives and has wide applications in practice. This paper surveys …

[HTML][HTML] A topological perspective on distributed network algorithms

A Castañeda, P Fraigniaud, A Paz, S Rajsbaum… - Theoretical Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
More than two decades ago, combinatorial topology was shown to be useful for analyzing
distributed fault-tolerant algorithms in shared memory systems and in message passing …

[HTML][HTML] Approximate agreement under mobile Byzantine faults

S Bonomi, A Del Pozzo, M Potop-Butucaru… - Theoretical Computer …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address the Approximate Agreement problem in the Mobile Byzantine Fault
model. Our contribution is three-fold. First, we refine the problem specification to adapt it to …

Tight bounds for asymptotic and approximate consensus

M Függer, T Nowak, M Schwarz - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Agreeing on a common value among a set of agents is a fundamental problem in distributed
computing, which occurs in several variants: In contrast to exact consensus, approximate …

Asymptotically tight bounds on the time complexity of broadcast and its variants in dynamic networks

A El-Hayek, M Henzinger, S Schmid - arxiv preprint arxiv:2211.10151, 2022 - arxiv.org
Data dissemination is a fundamental task in distributed computing. This paper studies
broadcast problems in various innovative models where the communication network …

Iterative approximate Byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphs

L Tseng, G Liang, NH Vaidya - Distributed Computing, 2024 - Springer
This paper identifies necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of iterative
algorithms that achieve approximate Byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphs …

Consensus in rooted dynamic networks with short-lived stability

K Winkler, M Schwarz, U Schmid - Distributed Computing, 2019 - Springer
We consider the problem of solving consensus using deterministic algorithms in a
synchronous dynamic network with unreliable, directional point-to-point links, which are …

Byzantine agreement with unknown participants and failures

P Khanchandani, R Wattenhofer - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A set of mutually distrusting participants that want to agree on a common opinion must solve
an instance of a Byzantine agreement problem. These problems have been extensively …