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Distributed Consensus Resilient to Both Crash Failures and Strategic Manipulations

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arxiv 1203.4324 v3 pith:HMCZ4V5P submitted 2012-03-20 cs.DC cs.GT

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keywords agentscolludingcrashfailuresdistributedmanipulationsprotocolstrategic
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In this paper, we study distributed consensus in synchronous systems subject to both unexpected crash failures and strategic manipulations by rational agents in the system. We adapt the concept of collusion-resistant Nash equilibrium to model protocols that are resilient to both crash failures and strategic manipulations of a group of colluding agents. For a system with $n$ distributed agents, we design a deterministic protocol that tolerates 2 colluding agents and a randomized protocol that tolerates $n - 1$ colluding agents, and both tolerate any number of failures. We also show that if colluders are allowed an extra communication round after each synchronous round, there is no protocol that can tolerate even 2 colluding agents and 1 crash failure.

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  1. Beyond Byzantine: An Organizational Consensus Algorithm for Self-Interested Agents Under Information Asymmetry

    cs.GT 2026-07 reject novelty 4.0 of 10

    OCA's simulation shows large coordination savings, but its theoretical guarantees rest on an invalid Perron-Frobenius application and a self-confirming penalty threshold.

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