DocumentCode
2483348
Title
Survivable consensus objects
Author
Malkhi, Dahlia ; Reiter, Michael K.
Author_Institution
AT&T Labs-Res., Florham Park, NJ, USA
fYear
1998
fDate
20-23 Oct 1998
Firstpage
271
Lastpage
279
Abstract
Reaching consensus among multiple processes in a distributed system is fundamental to coordinating distributed actions. We present a new approach to building survivable consensus objects in a system consisting of a (possibly large) collection of persistent object servers and a transient population of clients. Our consensus object implementation requires minimal support from servers, but at the same time enables clients to reach coordinated decisions despite the arbitrary (Byzantine) failure of any number of clients and up to a threshold number of servers
Keywords
client-server systems; concurrency control; distributed object management; persistent objects; software fault tolerance; Byzantine failure; clients; distributed action coordination; distributed system; persistent object servers; survivable consensus objects; Electrical capacitance tomography; Emulation; Polynomials; Protocols; Read only memory;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reliable Distributed Systems, 1998. Proceedings. Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
West Lafayette, IN
ISSN
1060-9857
Print_ISBN
0-8186-9218-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/RELDIS.1998.740509
Filename
740509
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