PISTIS: An Event-Triggered Real-Time Byzantine-Resilient Protocol Suite

Autor: Paulo Esteves-Verissimo, David Kozhaya, Vincent Rahli, Jérémie Decouchant
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 32(9)
ISSN: 2161-9883
1045-9219
DOI: 10.1109/tpds.2021.3056718
Popis: The accelerated digitalisation of society along with technological evolution have extended the geographical span of cyber-physical systems. Two main threats have made the reliable and real-time control of these systems challenging: (i) uncertainty in the communication infrastructure induced by scale, and heterogeneity of the environment and devices; and (ii) targeted attacks maliciously worsening the impact of the above-mentioned communication uncertainties, disrupting the correctness of real-time applications. This paper addresses those challenges by showing how to build distributed protocols that provide both real-time with practical performance, and scalability in the presence of network faults and attacks, in probabilistic synchronous environments. We provide a suite of real-time Byzantine protocols, which we prove correct, starting from a reliable broadcast protocol, called PISTIS, up to atomic broadcast and consensus. This suite simplifies the construction of powerful distributed and decentralized monitoring and control applications, including state-machine replication. Extensive empirical simulations showcase PISTIS's robustness, latency, and scalability. For example, PISTIS can withstand message loss (and delay) rates up to 50% in systems with 49 nodes and provides bounded delivery latencies in the order of a few milliseconds.
Comment: This is an extended version of a journal article, which appears in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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