Title :
Comments on "Detection of Mutual Inconsistency in Distributed Systems"
fDate :
6/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In the above paper,1authors have given a technique for the detection of mutual inconsistency among the copies of a file, in presence of network partitioning. This technique involves maintaining a "version vector" with each file in a partition. Here, we show that it is impossible to maintain the version vectors when arbitrary reconfigurations can occur after a network partitioning.
Keywords :
Database consistency; fault-tolerance; network partitioning; optimistic protocols; Broadcasting; Computer science; Fault tolerance; Merging; Protocols; Database consistency; fault-tolerance; network partitioning; optimistic protocols;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSE.1987.233482