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Mon, 17 May 2010 19:13:55 +0200
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New book on fault-tolerant distributed computing:

"Communication and Agreement Abstractions for Fault-Tolerant 
Asynchronous Distributed Systems"
by Michel Raynal


ABSTRACT:
Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task.This is due to 
the many facets of uncertainty
one has to cope with and master in order to produce correct distributed 
software.Considering the uncertainty created by asynchrony and process 
crash failures in the context of message-passing systems, the book 
focuses on the main abstractions that one has to understand and master 
in order to be able to produce software with guaranteed properties. 
These fundamental abstractions are communication abstractions that allow 
the processes to communicate consistently (namely the register 
abstraction and the reliable broadcast abstraction), and the consensus 
agreementabstractions that allows them to cooperate despite failures.As 
they give a precise meaning to the words “communicate “ and “agree” 
despite asynchrony and failures, these
abstractions allow distributed programs to be designed with properties 
that can be stated and proved.
Impossibility results are associated with these abstractions.Hence, in 
order to circumvent these
impossibilities, the book relies on the failure detector approach, and, 
consequently, that approach to fault-tolerance is central to the book.

KEYWORDS: asynchronous message-passing system, consensus abstraction, 
failure detectors, process
crash, register abstraction, uniform reliable broadcast abstraction


http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/dct/1/1


ISBN: 9781608452934 paperback ISBN: 9781608452941 ebook
DOI 10.2200/S00236ED1V01Y201004DCT002
A Publication in the Morgan & Claypool Publishers series
SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING THEORY

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