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Distributed classification of multiple observation sets by consensus

Pascal Frossard, Effrosyni Kokiopoulou

We consider the problem of distributed classification of multiple observations of the same object that are collected in an ad hoc network of vision sensors. Assuming that each sensor captures a different observation of the same object, the problem is to cl ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Progressive quantization in distributed average consensus

Pascal Frossard, Effrosyni Kokiopoulou

We consider the problem of distributed average consensus in a sensor network where sensors exchange quantized information with their neighbors. In particular, we exploit the increasing correlation between the exchanged values throughout the iterations of t ...

2011

Timing Analysis of Leader-Based and Decentralized Byzantine Consensus Algorithms

André Schiper, Martin Hutle, Fatemeh Borran

We compare in an analytical way two leader-based and decentralized algorithms (that is, algorithms that do not use a leader) for Byzantine consensus with strong validity. We show that for \emph{the algorithms we analyzed}, in most cases, the decentralized ...

IEEE2011

Automated Vulnerability Discovery in Distributed Systems

Rachid Guerraoui, George Candea, Radu Banabic

In this paper we present a technique for automatically assessing the amount of damage a small number of participant nodes can inﬂict on the overall performance of a large distributed system. We propose a feedback-driven tool that synthesizes malicious node ...

2011

Verification of consensus algorithms using satisfiability solving

André Schiper

Consensus is at the heart of fault-tolerant distributed computing systems. Much research has been devoted to developing algorithms for this particular problem. This paper presents a semi-automatic verification approach for asynchronous consensus algorithms ...

Springer Verlag2011

Generating Fast Indulgent Algorithms

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh

Synchronous distributed algorithms are easier to design and prove correct than algorithms that tolerate asynchrony. Yet, in the real world, networks experience asynchrony and other timing anomalies. In this paper, we address the question of how to efficien ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

Model Checking of Distributed Algorithm Implementations

Maysam Yabandeh

It is notoriously difficult to develop reliable, high-performance distributed systems that run over asynchronous networks. Even if a distributed system is based on a well-understood distributed algorithm, its implementation can contain errors arising from ...

EPFL2011

A Fault-Tolerant Token-Based Atomic Broadcast Algorithm

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

Many atomic broadcast algorithms have been published in the last 20 years. Token-based algorithms represent a large class of these algorithms. Interestingly, all the token-based atomic broadcast algorithms rely on a group membership service and none of the ...

2011

Efficient Model Checking of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Protocols

Johannes Kinder

To aid the formal verification of fault-tolerant distributed protocols, we propose an approach that significantly reduces the costs of their model checking. These protocols often specify atomic, process-local events that consume a set of messages, change t ...

IEEE2011

Definitive Consensus for Distributed Data Inference

Leonidas Georgopoulos

Inference from data is of key importance in many applications of informatics. The current trend in performing such a task of inference from data is to utilise machine learning algorithms. Moreover, in many applications that it is either required or is pref ...

EPFL2011