Names Trump Malice: Tiny Mobile Agents Can Tolerate Byzantine Failures

  • Authors:
  • Rachid Guerraoui;Eric Ruppert

  • Affiliations:
  • EPFL,;York University,

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '09 Proceedings of the 36th Internatilonal Collogquium on Automata, Languages and Programming: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce a new theoretical model of ad hoc mobile computing in which agents have restricted memory, highly unpredictable movement and no initial knowledge of the system. Each agent's memory can store O (1) bits, plus a unique identifier, and O (1) other agents' identifiers. Inputs are distributed across n agents, and all agents must converge to the correct output value. We give a universal construction that proves the model is surprisingly strong: It can solve any decision problem in NSPACE (n logn ). Moreover, the construction is robust with respect to Byzantine failures of a constant number of agents.