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