Achieving Agreement In Three Rounds With Bounded- Byzantine FaultsByzantine Fault Tolerance Agreement • November 15th, 2016
Contract Type FiledNovember 15th, 2016A three-round algorithm is presented that guarantees agreement in a system of K ≥ 3F+1 nodes provided each faulty node induces no more than F faults and each good node experiences no more than F faults, where, F is the maximum number of simultaneous faults in the network. The algorithm is based on the Oral Message algorithm of Lamport, Shostak, and Pease and is scalable with respect to the number of nodes in the system and applies equally to traditional node-fault model as well as the link-fault model. We also present a mechanical verification of the algorithm focusing on verifying the correctness of a bounded model of the algorithm as well as confirming claims of determinism.