Hopper: Bounded-Memory Collaborative Debiasing for Byzantine-Tolerant Peer Sampling

📅 2026-09-17
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本文提出Hopper协议,通过有限内存下的协作去偏技术解决拜占庭容错对等采样中标识符流被恶意偏置的问题。
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Byzantine-tolerant peer sampling relies on continuously refreshed views, yet an adversary can bias the identifier streams used to construct them. Frequency-aware debiasing downweights overrepresented identifiers, but existing designs rely on cumulative per-identifier counts. We show that even exact, unbounded counters fail under a delayed balanced attack, in which a long benign prefix masks a subsequent adversarial frequency shift. We introduce Hopper, a bounded-memory debiasing protocol for Byzantine-tolerant peer sampling. We identify the stream-estimation properties required for debiasing and select BitMatcher as the estimator that best preserves adversarial frequency structure among the evaluated alternatives. Hopper adds BMDecay, a saturation-triggered decay and reconstruction mechanism that keeps this signal fresh over long executions. Hopper also supports trusted collaboration through authenticated fingerprint-aware reconstruction and role-specific debiasing. Experiments show that Hopper recovers from delayed attacks faster than when relying on BitMatcher, and debiaising as well as non-debiasing baselines under a fixed memory budget. Trusted collaboration reduces post-attack pollution peaks but creates a re-identification trade-off at high trusted-node densities. These results show the importance of occurence freshness, rather than exact counting alone, as a key requirement for practical frequency-aware Byzantine peer sampling.
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Byzantine-tolerant
peer sampling
frequency-aware debiasing
delayed balanced attack
Innovation

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bounded-memory debiasing
Byzantine-tolerant peer sampling
BitMatcher
BMDecay
trusted collaboration
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