Title
Byzantine fault tolerance for centrally coordinated missions with unmanned vehicles
Abstract
Autonomous unmanned vehicles can support a wide range of missions, which are typically coordinated by a human operator. Automating these missions through a computer program can offer great advantages, but at the same time introduces several challenges. In particular, it becomes important to tolerate failures of the mission controller, including the most general type, namely Byzantine failures. To address this challenge, we propose an active replication approach adapted to the characteristics of this particular type of system. Our solution relies on signed messages and requires N = 2 × f + 1 mission controller replicas to tolerate f Byzantine failures. We describe the system model and the mechanisms that need to be in place to achieve the desired functionality, and argue about the correctness of the proposed approach in an informal way. Also, we evaluate the overheads of a prototype implementation through indicative simulation experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3387902.3392622
CF '20: Computing Frontiers Conference Catania Sicily Italy May, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Byzantine fault tolerance, cyber-physical systems, autonomous vehicles
Conference
978-1-4503-7956-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nasos Grigoropoulos100.34
manos koutsoubelias2145.45
Spyros Lalis320835.55