Week 4: State Machine Replication and Virtual Synchrony
- Lecture notes:
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Virtual Synchrony - Lecture notes
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Virtual Synchrony - Lecture slides
(6 per page)
- Supplemental notes:
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- Birman, Ken, A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model,
Cornell University.
- Ken Birman is the father of virtual synchrony
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Kenneth P. Birman and Thomas A. Joseph,
Exploiting Virtual Synchrony in Distributed Systems, © 1987 ACM.
- Navaneeth Rameshan, How are Paxos and Virtual Synchrony related?, Quora.com article
- Buzzwords:
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Active-passive, active-active, replicas, process group, fail-silent faults, fail-stop faults,
fail-recover faults,
synchronous vs. asynchronous networks, two-army problem, group view, view change,
barrier, group membership service, state transfer, stable message, unstable message, message flush
