Asynchronous Approximate Byzantine Consensus: A Multi-hop Relay Method and Tight Graph Conditions

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Autori principali: Yuan, Liwei, Ishii, Hideaki
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author Yuan, Liwei
Ishii, Hideaki
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Ishii, Hideaki
contents We study a multi-agent resilient consensus problem, where some agents are of the Byzantine type and try to prevent the normal ones from reaching consensus. In our setting, normal agents communicate with each other asynchronously over multi-hop relay channels with delays. To solve this asynchronous Byzantine consensus problem, we develop the multi-hop weighted mean subsequence reduced (MW-MSR) algorithm. The main contribution is that we characterize a tight graph condition for our algorithm to achieve Byzantine consensus, which is expressed in the novel notion of strictly robust graphs. We show that the multi-hop communication is effective for enhancing the network's resilience against Byzantine agents. As a result, we also obtain novel conditions for resilient consensus under the malicious attack model, which are tighter than those known in the literature. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can be viewed as a generalization of the conventional flooding-based algorithms, with less computational complexity. Lastly, we provide numerical examples to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
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spellingShingle Asynchronous Approximate Byzantine Consensus: A Multi-hop Relay Method and Tight Graph Conditions
Yuan, Liwei
Ishii, Hideaki
Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
We study a multi-agent resilient consensus problem, where some agents are of the Byzantine type and try to prevent the normal ones from reaching consensus. In our setting, normal agents communicate with each other asynchronously over multi-hop relay channels with delays. To solve this asynchronous Byzantine consensus problem, we develop the multi-hop weighted mean subsequence reduced (MW-MSR) algorithm. The main contribution is that we characterize a tight graph condition for our algorithm to achieve Byzantine consensus, which is expressed in the novel notion of strictly robust graphs. We show that the multi-hop communication is effective for enhancing the network's resilience against Byzantine agents. As a result, we also obtain novel conditions for resilient consensus under the malicious attack model, which are tighter than those known in the literature. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can be viewed as a generalization of the conventional flooding-based algorithms, with less computational complexity. Lastly, we provide numerical examples to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
title Asynchronous Approximate Byzantine Consensus: A Multi-hop Relay Method and Tight Graph Conditions
topic Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07640