The consensus problem in unreliable distributed systems (a brief survey) [chapter]

Michael J. Fischer
1983 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Agreement problems involve a system of processes, some of which may be faulty. A fundamental problem of fault-tolerant distributed computing is for the reliable processes to reach a consensus. We survey the considerable literature on this problem that has developed over the past few years and give an informal overview of the major theoretical results in the area. ¡
doi:10.1007/3-540-12689-9_99 fatcat:mcno7yn4sjhjjbkib23ljjaqzy