Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process Export

@article{citeulike:92799, abstract = {The consensus problem involves an asynchronous system of processes, some of which may be unreliable. The problem is for the reliable processes to agree on a binary value. In this paper, it is shown that every protocol for this problem has the possibility of nontermination, even with only one faulty process. By way of contrast, solutions are known for the synchronous case, the \“Byzantine Generals\” problem.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Fischer, Michael J. and Lynch, Nancy A. and Paterson, Michael S.}, citeulike-article-id = {92799}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=214121}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3149.214121}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm85.pdf}, doi = {10.1145/3149.214121}, issn = {0004-5411}, journal = {J. ACM}, keywords = {1985, consensus, distributed, impossibility}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {374--382}, posted-at = {2008-03-24 07:36:58}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3149.214121}, volume = {32}, year = {1985} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:92799 L3 - citeulike-article-id:92799 N2 - The consensus problem involves an asynchronous system of processes, some of which may be unreliable. The problem is for the reliable processes to agree on a binary value. In this paper, it is shown that every protocol for this problem has the possibility of nontermination, even with only one faulty process. By way of contrast, solutions are known for the synchronous case, the “Byzantine Generals” problem. IS - 2 JF - J. ACM SN - 0004-5411 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 382 TI - Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process PB - ACM VL - 32 SP - 374 KW - 1985 KW - consensus KW - distributed KW - impossibility AU - Fischer, Michael AU - Lynch, Nancy AU - Paterson, Michael PY - 1985/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3149.214121 ER -