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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.20
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-70895
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2017/7089/
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Nikolaou, Stavros ; van Renesse, Robbert

Moving Participants Turtle Consensus

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Abstract

We present Moving Participants Turtle Consensus (MPTC), an asynchronous consensus protocol for crash and Byzantine-tolerant distributed systems. MPTC uses various moving target defense strategies to tolerate certain Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks issued by an adversary capable of compromising a bounded portion of the system. MPTC supports on the fly reconfiguration of the consensus strategy as well as of the processes executing this strategy when solving the problem of agreement. It uses existing cryptographic techniques to ensure that reconfiguration takes place in an unpredictable fashion thus eliminating the adversary’s advantage on predicting protocol and execution-specific information that can be used against the protocol.

We implement MPTC as well as a State Machine Replication protocol and evaluate our design under different attack scenarios. Our evaluation shows that MPTC approximates best case scenario performance even under a well-coordinated DoS attack.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{nikolaou_et_al:LIPIcs:2017:7089,
  author =	{Stavros Nikolaou and Robbert van Renesse},
  title =	{{Moving Participants Turtle Consensus}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-031-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{70},
  editor =	{Panagiota Fatourou and Ernesto Jim{\'e}nez and Fernando Pedone},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7089},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-70895},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Consensus, adaptation, moving target defense}
}

Keywords: Consensus, adaptation, moving target defense
Collection: 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016)
Issue Date: 2017
Date of publication: 06.04.2017

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