Dual-domain Defenses for Byzantine-resilient Decentralized Resource Allocation

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Main Authors: Wang, Runhua, Ling, Qing, Tian, Zhi
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Published: 2023
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author Wang, Runhua
Ling, Qing
Tian, Zhi
author_facet Wang, Runhua
Ling, Qing
Tian, Zhi
contents This paper investigates the problem of decentralized resource allocation in the presence of Byzantine attacks. Such attacks occur when an unknown number of malicious agents send random or carefully crafted messages to their neighbors, aiming to prevent the honest agents from reaching the optimal resource allocation strategy. We characterize these malicious behaviors with the classical Byzantine attacks model, and propose a class of Byzantine-resilient decentralized resource allocation algorithms augmented with dual-domain defenses. The honest agents receive messages containing the (possibly malicious) dual variables from their neighbors at each iteration, and filter these messages with robust aggregation rules. Theoretically, we prove that the proposed algorithms can converge to neighborhoods of the optimal resource allocation strategy, given that the robust aggregation rules are properly designed. Numerical experiments are conducted to corroborate the theoretical results.
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spellingShingle Dual-domain Defenses for Byzantine-resilient Decentralized Resource Allocation
Wang, Runhua
Ling, Qing
Tian, Zhi
Optimization and Control
This paper investigates the problem of decentralized resource allocation in the presence of Byzantine attacks. Such attacks occur when an unknown number of malicious agents send random or carefully crafted messages to their neighbors, aiming to prevent the honest agents from reaching the optimal resource allocation strategy. We characterize these malicious behaviors with the classical Byzantine attacks model, and propose a class of Byzantine-resilient decentralized resource allocation algorithms augmented with dual-domain defenses. The honest agents receive messages containing the (possibly malicious) dual variables from their neighbors at each iteration, and filter these messages with robust aggregation rules. Theoretically, we prove that the proposed algorithms can converge to neighborhoods of the optimal resource allocation strategy, given that the robust aggregation rules are properly designed. Numerical experiments are conducted to corroborate the theoretical results.
title Dual-domain Defenses for Byzantine-resilient Decentralized Resource Allocation
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05698