Accountability and Reconfiguration: Self-Healing Lattice Agreement

  • Luciano Freitas de Souza
  • , Petr Kuznetsov
  • , Thibault Rieutord
  • , Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

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Abstract

An accountable distributed system provides means to detect deviations of system components from their expected behavior. It is natural to complement fault detection with a reconfiguration mechanism, so that the system could heal itself, by replacing malfunctioning parts with new ones. In this paper, we describe a framework that can be used to implement a large class of accountable and reconfigurable replicated services. We build atop the fundamental lattice agreement abstraction lying at the core of storage systems and cryptocurrencies. Our asynchronous implementation of accountable lattice agreement ensures that every violation of consistency is followed by an undeniable evidence of misbehavior of a faulty replica. The system can then be seamlessly reconfigured by evicting faulty replicas, adding new ones and merging inconsistent states. We believe that this paper opens a direction towards asynchronous “self-healing” systems that combine accountability and reconfiguration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2021
EditorsQuentin Bramas, Vincent Gramoli, Vincent Gramoli, Alessia Milani
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN (Electronic)9783959772198
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2022
Event25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2021 - Strasbourg, France
Duration: 13 Dec 202115 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume217
ISSN (Print)1868-8969

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2021
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityStrasbourg
Period13/12/2115/12/21

Keywords

  • Accountability
  • Asynchronous
  • Lattice agreement
  • Reconfiguration

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