Byzantine Failure Detection for Dynamic Distributed Systems
Murilo Santos de Lima, Fabíola Greve, Luciana Arantes, Pierre Sens · 2010
Byzantine failure detectors provide an elegant abstraction for implementing Byzantine fault tolerance. However, as far as we know, there is no general solution for this problem in a dynamic distributed system over wireless networks with unknown membership. This paper presents thus a first Byzantine failure detector for this context. The protocol has the interesting feature to be time-free, that is, it does not rely on timers to detect omission failures. This characteristic favors its scalability and help to deal with the dynamics and unpredictability of those networks.