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In 1971, the first microprocessor produced in mass production had 2300 transistor and was able to compute 60'000 operations per second at 740 kHz. Nowadays, even a common gaming console uses a central unit including 243 millions of transistors running at 4 ...
In a distributed application, high-availability of a critical online service is ensured despite failures by duplicating the vital components of the server. Whilst guaranteeing the access to the server at all times, duplication requires particular care, so ...
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform fast if few failures occur, the system is synchronous and there is no contenti ...
In modern distributed systems, failures are the norm rather than the exception. In many cases, these failures are not benign. Settings such as the Internet might incur malicious (also called Byzantine or arbitrary) behavior and asynchrony. As a result, and ...
This paper establishes the first theorem relating resilience, round complexity and authentication in distributed computing. We give an exact measure of the time complexity of consensus algorithms that tolerate Byzantine failures and arbitrary long periods ...
This paper presents a tight lower bound on the time complexity of indulgent consensus algorithms, i.e., consensus algorithms that use unreliable failure detectors. We state and prove our tight lower bound in the unifying framework of round-by-round fault d ...
When devising a distributed agreement algorithm, it is common to minimize the time complexity of global decisions, which is typically measured as the number of communication rounds needed for all correct processes to decide. In practice, what we might want ...
Many reliable distributed systems are consensus-based and typically operate under two modes: a fast normal mode in failure-free periods, and a slower recovery mode following failures. A lot of work has been devoted to optimizing the normal mode, but little ...
In many distributed systems, designing an application that maintains consistency and availability despite failure of processes, involves solving some form of agreement. Not surprisingly, providing efficient agreement algorithms is critical for improving th ...
