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SUMMARY:Towards high throughput agreement in decentralized environments
DTSTART:20190628T100000
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DESCRIPTION:Athanasios Xygkis\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. 
 Edouard Bugnion\nThesis advisor: Prof. Rachid Guerraoui\nCo-examiner: Prof
 . Viktor Kuncak\n\nAbstract\nAgreement\, also known as consensus\, is a fu
 ndamental\nproblem in distributed systems. Multiple agreement protocols\ne
 xist\, each one adapted for the particular environment where\na distribute
 d system is deployed. The system model plays a\ncentral role in the comple
 xity of agreement protocols\, with open\,\ndecentralized environments bein
 g especially challenging.\nSystems deployed in such decentralized networks
  usually assert that some\nparticipants can be Byzantine. Furthermore\, th
 ese systems have\nto deal with Sybil and Eclipse attacks\, both of which a
 re implications\nof their openness. This report aims to present how to ach
 ieve\nhigh-throughput agreement in decentralized environments\, and\nhow t
 o overcome the aforementioned challenges.\n\nBackground papers\nThroughput
  optimal total order broadcast for cluster environments\, by Guerraoui\, R
 .\, Levy\, R.\, Pochon\, B.\, et Vivien\,Q.\nEclipse attacks on bitcoin's 
 peer-to-peer network\, by Heilman\, E.\, et al.\nAlgorand: Scaling Byzanti
 ne Agreements for Cryptocurrencies\, by Gilad\, Y.\, et al.
LOCATION:BC 229 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20229
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