Elastic Replication for the Cloud

We present a new class of Byzantine-tolerant State Machine Replication protocols that we call Byzantine Chain Replication. These protocols are not based on Byzantine consensus but on cooperative reconfiguration, and the set of replicas is easy to reconfigure.

Speaker Details

I am a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. I’m a member of the Systems and Networking group. I’m interested in distributed systems, particularly in their fault tolerance and scalability aspects. I’m an elected member on the Steering Committee of NSF PRObE (Parallel Reconfigurable Observational Environment). I also play guitar and do sound for the Ageless Jazz Band, play Dixieland banjo in The JazzHappensBand, am co-founder of and advisor to The Cornell Dutch Club, and co-founder of The Finger Lakes One Wheelers, a unicycling club. I’m the webmaster of The Ithaca High School PSTA web site. I’m also the designer and webmaster of GigKeeper.com, a site that helps with the management side of playing in bands.

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Speakers:
Robbert van Renesse
Affiliation:
Cornell University