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Using Time Instead of Timeout for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems.

Year: 1984

Type: article

Abstract: A general method is described for implementing a distributed system with any desired degree of faulttolerance.Instead of relying upon explicit timeouts, processes execute a simple clock-driven algorithm.Reliable clock synchronization and a solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem are assumed.

Source: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

DOI: 10.1145/2993.2994

Author: Leslie Lamport

Institution: SRI International

Language: English

Topic: Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Concurrent Processing