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Heterogeneous Paxos: Technical Report

@article{Sheff2020HeterogeneousPT,
  title={Heterogeneous Paxos: Technical Report},
  author={Isaac C. Sheff and X. Wang and R. Renesse and A. Myers},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2011.08253}
}

Isaac C. Sheff, X. Wang, +1 author A. Myers

Published 2020

Computer Science

ArXiv

In distributed systems, a group of $\textit{learners}$ achieve $\textit{consensus}$ when, by observing the output of some $\textit{acceptors}$, they all arrive at the same value. Consensus is crucial for ordering transactions in failure-tolerant systems. Traditional consensus algorithms are homogeneous in three ways: - all learners are treated equally, - all acceptors are treated equally, and - all failures are treated equally. These assumptions, however, are unsuitable for cross-domain… CONTINUE READING

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