Title :
The SecureRing protocols for securing group communication
Author :
Kihlstrom, Kim Potter ; Moser, L.E. ; Melliar-Smith, P.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
The SecureRing group communication protocols provide reliable ordered message delivery and group membership services despite Byzantine faults such as might be caused by modifications to the programs of a group member following illicit access to, or capture of, a group member. The protocols multicast messages to groups of processors within an asynchronous distributed system and deliver messages in a consistent total order to all members of the group. They ensure that correct members agree on changes to the membership, that correct processors are eventually included in the membership, and that processors that exhibit detectable Byzantine faults are eventually excluded from the membership. To provide these message delivery and group membership services, the protocols make use of an unreliable Byzantine fault detector
Keywords :
distributed processing; security of data; transport protocols; Byzantine fault detector; SecureRing; asynchronous distributed system; communication protocols; group communication; group membership services; message delivery; multicast messages; reliable ordered message delivery; roup membership; Access protocols; Electrical capacitance tomography; Fault detection; Government; Hip; Laboratories; Multicast protocols; Protection; Read only memory; Terminology;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kohala Coast, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8255-8
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1998.656294
