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Author | Patra, Arpita Choudhary, Ashish Pandu Rangan, Chandrasekharan |
Abstract | Consider a completely asynchronous network consisting of n parties where every two parties are connected by a private channel. An adversary $A_{t}$ with unbounded computing power actively controls at most t = ([n/3] − 1) out of n parties in Byzantine fashion. In this setting, we say that π is a t-resilient, (1 − ε)-terminating Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement (ABA) protocol, if π satisfies all the properties of Byzantine Agreement (BA) in asynchronous settings tolerating $A_{t}$ and terminates (i.e every honest party terminates π with probability at least (1 − ε). In this work, we present a new t-resilient, (1 − ε)-terminating ABA protocol which privately communicates $O(Cn^{6}$ κ) bits and $A-casts^{1}$ $O(Cn^{6}$ κ) bits, where ε = $2^{−Ω(κ)}$ and C is the expected running time of the protocol. Moreover, conditioned on the event that our ABA protocol terminates, it does so in constant expected time; i.e., C = O(1). Our ABA protocol is to be compared with the only known t-resilient, (1 − ε)-terminating ABA protocol of [5] in the same settings, which privately communicates $O(Cn^{11}$ $κ^{4})$ bits and A-casts $O(Cn^{11}$ $κ^{2}$ log(n)) bits, where ε = $2^{−Ω(κ)}$ and C = O(1). So our ABA achieves a huge gain in communication complexity in comparison to the ABA of [5], while keeping all other properties in place. In another landmark work, in PODC 2008, Abraham et. al [1] proposed a t-resilient, 1-terminating (called as almost-surely terminating in [1]) ABA protocol which privately communicates $O(Cn^{6}$ log n) bits and A-casts $O(Cn^{6}$ log n) bits. But ABA protocol of Abraham et. al. takes polynomial (C = $O(n^{2}))$ expected time to terminate. Hence the merits of our ABA protocol over the ABA of Abraham et. al. are: (i) For any κ < $n^{2}$ log n, our ABA is better in terms of communication complexity (ii) conditioned on the event that our ABA protocol terminates, it does so in constant expected time (the constant is independent of n, t and κ), whereas ABA of Abraham et. al. takes polynomial expected time. Summing up, in a practical scenario where a faster and communication efficient ABA protocol is required, our ABA fits the bill better than ABA protocols of [5, 1]. For designing our ABA protocol, we present a novel and simple asynchronous verifiable secret sharing (AVSS) protocol which significantly improves the communication complexity of the only known AVSS protocol of [5] in the same settings. We believe that our AVSS can be used in many other applications for improving communication complexity and hence is of independent interest. |
Starting Page | 92 |
Ending Page | 101 |
Page Count | 10 |
File Format | |
ISBN | 9781605583969 |
DOI | 10.1145/1582716.1582736 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Publisher Date | 2009-08-10 |
Publisher Place | New York |
Access Restriction | Subscribed |
Subject Keyword | Byzantine agreement Vss Unbounded computing power Asynchronous networks |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Article |
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