Byzantine-Tolerant Gathering of Mobile Agents in Arbitrary Networks with Authenticated Whiteboards
Masashi Tsuchida, Fukuhito Ooshita, Michiko Inoue · IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems · 2018
We propose an algorithm for the gathering problem of mobile agents in arbitrary networks (graphs) with Byzantine agents. Our algorithm can make all correct agents meet at a single node in O(fm) time (f is the upper bound of the number of Byzantine agents and m is the number of edges) under the assumption that agents have unique ID and behave synchronously, each node is equipped with an authenticated whiteboard, and f is known to agents. Here, the whiteboard is a node memory where agents can leave information. Since the existing algorithm achieves gathering without a whiteboard in Õ(n9λ) time, where n is the number of nodes and λ is the length of the longest ID, our algorithm shows an authenticated whiteboard can significantly reduce the time for the gathering problem in Byzantine environments.