Prime: Byzantine replication under attack

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 564-577

  Amir, Yair ^a   Coan, Brian ^b   Kirsch, Jonathan ^a   Lane, John ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Byzantine fault tolerance; distributed systems.; Performance under attack; replicated state machines

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE;

ADVERSARIAL ENVIRONMENTS; BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANCE; CORRECTNESS CRITERION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE UNDER ATTACK; REPLICATION PROTOCOL; STATE MACHINE;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 79957623137     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2010.70     Document Type: Article

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