Boosting Byzantine Protocols in Large Sparse Networks with High System Assumption Coverage

03/07/2022
by   Shaolin Yu, et al.
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To improve the overall efficiency and reliability of Byzantine protocols in large sparse networks, we propose a new system assumption for developing multi-scale fault-tolerant systems, with which several kinds of multi-scale Byzantine protocols are developed in large sparse networks with high system assumption coverage. By extending the traditional Byzantine adversary to the multi-scale adversaries, it is shown that efficient deterministic Byzantine broadcast and Byzantine agreement can be built in logarithmic-degree networks. Meanwhile, it is shown that the multi-scale adversary can make a finer trade-off between the system assumption coverage and the overall efficiency of the Byzantine protocols, especially when a small portion of the low-layer small-scale protocols are allowed to fail arbitrarily. With this, efficient Byzantine protocols can be built in large sparse networks with high system reliability.

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