Redundancy in distributed proofs

Laurent Feuilloley, Pierre Fraigniaud, Juho Hirvonen, Ami Paz, Mor Perry

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Abstract

Distributed proofs are mechanisms enabling the nodes of a network to collectively and efficiently check the correctness of Boolean predicates on the structure of the network (e.g. having a specific diameter), or on data structures distributed over the nodes (e.g. a spanning tree). We consider well known mechanisms consisting of two components: a prover that assigns a certificate to each node, and a distributed algorithm called verifier that is in charge of verifying the distributed proof formed by the collection of all certificates. We show that many network predicates have distributed proofs offering a high level of redundancy, explicitly or implicitly. We use this remarkable property of distributed proofs to establish perfect tradeoffs between the size of the certificate stored at every node, and the number of rounds of the verification protocol.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2018
EditorsUlrich Schmid, Josef Widder
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN (Electronic)9783959770927
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2018
Event32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2018 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 15 Oct 201819 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume121
ISSN (Print)1868-8969

Conference

Conference32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period15/10/1819/10/18

Keywords

  • And phrases Distributed verification
  • Distributed graph algorithms
  • Non-determinism
  • Proof-labeling schemes
  • Space-time tradeoffs

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