Consensus in Asynchronous Distributed Systems: A Concise Guided Tour

Abstract. It is now recognized that the Consensus problem is a fundamental problem when one has to design and implement reliable asynchronous distributed systems. This chapter is on the Consensus problem. It studies Consensus in two failure models, namely, the Crash/no Recovery model and the Crash/Recovery model. The assumptions related to the detection of failures that are required to solve Consensus in a given model are particularly emphasized.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: AC
• Authors: Rachid Guerraoui, Michel Hurfin, Achour Mostéfaoui, Rui Carlos Oliveira, Michel Raynal, André Schiper
• Keywords: AC 1999, Asynchronous Distributed Systems, Consensus Problem, Fundamental Problem, Software Engineering