Title :
Consensus: the big misunderstanding [distributed fault tolerant systems]
Author :
Guerraoui, Rachid ; Schiper, André
Author_Institution :
Dept. d´´Inf., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
The paper aims at clarifying some misunderstandings about the consensus problem. These misunderstandings prevent consensus from being considered as it should be, i.e., a fundamental paradigm in the context of fault-tolerant distributed systems, not only from a theoretical point of view, but also from a practical point of view. Six frequent misunderstandings are discussed
Keywords :
computer network reliability; distributed algorithms; distributed processing; real-time systems; software fault tolerance; agreement problems; atomic broadcast; consensus problem; failure detectors; fault-tolerant distributed systems; fundamental paradigm; liveness guarantees; real time systems; time critical applications; timeliness; Broadcasting; Computer crashes; Delay; Detectors; Fault tolerant systems; Nominations and elections;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Tunis
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8153-5
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1997.644722
