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Consensus in Asynchronous Distributed Systems: A Concise Guided Tour

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It is now recognized that the Consensus problem is a fundamental problem when one has to design and implement reliable asynchronous distributed systems. This chapter is on the Consensus problem. It studies Consensus in two failure models, namely, the Crash/no Recovery model and the Crash/Recovery model. The assumptions related to the detection of failures that are required to solve Consensus in a given model are particularly emphasized.

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  1. Déepartement d’Informatique, EPFL, 1015, Lausanne, Suisse

    Rachid Guerraoui, Riucarlos Oliveira & Andre Schiper

  2. Campus de Beaulieu, IRISA, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Michel Hurfinn, Achour Mostefaoui & Michel Raynal

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  1. Grenoble Laboratoire SIRAC, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Université Joseph fourier, 655 avenue de l’Europe, 38330, Monbonnot Saint-Martin, France

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  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

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Guerraoui, R., Hurfinn, M., Mostefaoui, A., Oliveira, R., Raynal, M., Schiper, A. (2000). Consensus in Asynchronous Distributed Systems: A Concise Guided Tour. In: Krakowiak, S., Shrivastava, S. (eds) Advances in Distributed Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1752. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46475-1_2

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