Skip to content (access key 's')
Logo of Technion
Logo of CS Department
Events

The Taub Faculty of Computer Science Events and Talks

Optimal Good-Case Latency for Sleepy Consensus
event speaker icon
Yuval Efron (Columbia University)
event date icon
Monday, 05.01.2026, 13:30
event location icon
Taub 601

In the context of Byzantine consensus problems such as Byzantine broadcast (BB) and Byzantine agreement (BA), the good-case setting aims to study the minimal possible latency of a BB or BA protocol under certain favorable conditions, namely the designated leader being correct (for BB), or all parties having the same input value (for BA). We provide a full characterization of the feasibility and impossibility of good-case latency, for both BA and BB, in the synchronous sleepy model. Surprisingly to us, we find irrational resilience thresholds emerging: 2-round good-case BB is possible if and only if at all times, at least 0.618 fraction of the active parties are correct; 1-round good-case BA is possible if and only if at least 0.707 fraction of the active parties are correct.