Publications by Zarko Milosevic

Revisiting Tendermint: Design Tradeoffs, Accountability, and Practical Use

Rachid Guerraoui, Zarko Milosevic, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Jovan Komatovic

Tendermint is a deterministic consensus protocol and is one of the most mature implementations of its kind. This implementation is used as the core for building State Machine Replication (SMR) platforms with Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) guarantees. A not ...

IEEE2022

Crime and Punishment in Distributed Byzantine Decision Tasks

Rachid Guerraoui, Zarko Milosevic, Seth Gilbert, Vincent Gramoli, Jovan Komatovic, Pierre Philippe Civit

A decision task is a distributed input-output problem in which each process starts with its input value and eventually produces its output value. Examples of such decision tasks are broad and range from consensus to reliable broadcast to lattice agreement. ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Tolerating permanent and transient value faults

André Schiper, Martin Hutle, Zarko Milosevic

Transmission faults allow us to reason about permanent and transient value faults in a uniform way. However, all existing solutions to consensus in this model are either in the synchronous system, or require strong conditions for termination, that exclude ...

Springer Verlag2014

Abstractions for Solving Consensus and Related Problems with Byzantine Faults

Zarko Milosevic

We become increasingly dependent on online services; therefore, their availability and correct behavior become increasingly important. Software replication is a popular technique for ensuring that computer systems continue to provide a correct service even ...

EPFL2013

S-Paxos: Offloading the Leader for High Throughput State Machine Replication

André Schiper, Zarko Milosevic, Nuno Filipe de Sousa Santos, Martin Biely

Implementations of state machine replication are prevalently using variants of Paxos or other leader-based protocols. Typically these protocols are also leader-centric, in the sense that the leader performs more work than the non-leader replicas. Such prot ...

2012

Structured Derivation of Semi-Synchronous Algorithms

André Schiper, Fatemeh Borran, Martin Hutle, Zarko Milosevic, Hagit Albo Attiya

The semi-synchronous model is an important middle ground between the synchronous and the asynchronous models of distributed computing. In this model, processes can detect (timeout) when other processes fail. However, since detection is done by timing out, ...

2011

On the Reduction of Atomic Broadcast to Consensus with Byzantine Faults

André Schiper, Martin Hutle, Zarko Milosevic

We investigate the reduction of atomic broadcast to consensus in systems with Byzantine faults. Among the several definitions of Byzantine consensus that differ only by their validity property, we identify those equivalent to atomic broadcast. Finally, we ...

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Securing Every Bit: Authenticated Broadcast in Radio Networks

Rachid Guerraoui, Zarko Milosevic, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh

This paper studies non-cryptographic authenticated broad- cast in radio networks subject to malicious failures. We in- troduce two protocols that address this problem. The first, NeighborWatchRB, makes use of a novel strategy in which honest devices monito ...

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Generic construction of consensus algorithms for benign and Byzantine faults

André Schiper, Olivier Rütti, Zarko Milosevic

The paper proposes a generic consensus algorithm that highlights the basic and common features of known consensus algorithms. The parameters of the generic algorithm encapsulate the core differences between various consensus algorithms, including leader-ba ...

2010

Unifying Byzantine Consensus Algorithms with Weak Interactive Consistency

André Schiper, Martin Hutle, Zarko Milosevic

The paper considers the consensus problem in a partially synchronous system with Byzantine processes. In this context, the literature distinguishes authenticated Byzantine faults, where messages can be signed by the sending process (with the assumption tha ...

Springer-Verlag2009