From Crash Tolerance to Authenticated Byzantine Tolerance: A Structured Approach, the Cost and Benefits

Dimane Mpoeleng, Paul Ezhilchelvan, Neil Speirs

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Abstract

Many fault-tolerant group communication middleware systems have been implemented assuming crash failure semantics. While this assumption is not unreasonable, it becomes hard to justify when applications are required to meet high reliability requirements and are built using commercial off the shelf (COTS) components. This paper presents a structured approach to extend a crash-tolerant middleware system into an authenticated Byzantine tolerant one with small modifications to the original system. The proposed approach is based on state machine replication (SMR) and is motivated by the composability features of standard distributed object technologies such as CORBA. SMR is used to assure signal-on-failure (fail-signal) semantics at a level where existing crash-tolerant services can be seamlessly deployed. The resulting system can provide total ordering that has no liveness requirement for termination. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by porting a crash-tolerant CORBA group communication service - the NewTOP system. We also measure the performance of the resulting system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Pages227-236
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Event2003 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: Jun 22 2003Jun 25 2003

Other

Other2003 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period6/22/036/25/03

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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