ATOMIC BROADCAST: FROM SIMPLE MESSAGE DIFFUSION TO BYZANTINE AGREEMENT.

Flaviu Cristian*, Houtan Aghili, Ray Strong, Danny Dolev

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Abstract

A new family of atomic broadcast protocols is presented that ranges from a very simple protocol that only tolerates omission faults to a rather sophisticated protocol that tolerates any type of fault. The more types of faults a protocol can tolerate, the more complex and expensive it is to build and run. The objective is to provide, for all considered fault classes, protocols that are cost-effective for those classes in terms of message traffic, speed, and complexity. The protocols work for arbitrary point-to-point network topologies, can tolerate any number of faults up to network partitioning, use a small number of messages, and achieve in many cases the best possible termination times.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigest of Papers - FTCS (Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium)
PublisherIEEE
Pages200-206
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)0818606185
StatePublished - 1985
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameDigest of Papers - FTCS (Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium)
ISSN (Print)0731-3071

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