The generic consensus service.

This paper describes a modular approach for the construction of fault-tolerant agreement protocols. The approach is based on a generic consensus service. Fault-tolerant agreement protocols are built using a client-server interaction, where the clients are the processes that must solve the agreement...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on software engineering 27, 1 (2001).
Main Author:	Guerraoui, R.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Client-server interaction. Fault-tolerant agreement protocols. Generic consensus filter. Generic consensus service. Group membership. Liveness. Nonblocking atomic commitment. Safety properties. Total order multicast. View synchronous communication.