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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.21
Fault-Tolerant Computing with Unreliable Channels

Authors: Alejandro Naser-Pastoriza, Gregory Chockler, and Alexey Gotsman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 286, 27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2023)

Abstract
We study implementations of basic fault-tolerant primitives, such as consensus and registers, in message-passing systems subject to process crashes and a broad range of communication failures. Our results characterize the necessary and sufficient conditions for implementing these primitives as a function of the connectivity constraints and synchrony assumptions. Our main contribution is a new algorithm for partially synchronous consensus that is resilient to process crashes and channel failures and is optimal in its connectivity requirements. In contrast to prior work, our algorithm assumes the most general model of message loss where faulty channels are flaky, i.e., can lose messages without any guarantee of fairness. This failure model is particularly challenging for consensus algorithms, as it rules out standard solutions based on leader oracles and failure detectors. To circumvent this limitation, we construct our solution using a new variant of the recently proposed view synchronizer abstraction, which we adapt to the crash-prone setting with flaky channels.
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Alejandro Naser-Pastoriza, Gregory Chockler, and Alexey Gotsman. Fault-Tolerant Computing with Unreliable Channels. In 27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 286, pp. 21:1-21:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{naserpastoriza_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.21,
  author =	{Naser-Pastoriza, Alejandro and Chockler, Gregory and Gotsman, Alexey},
  title =	{{Fault-Tolerant Computing with Unreliable Channels}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2023)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-308-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{286},
  editor =	{Bessani, Alysson and D\'{e}fago, Xavier and Nakamura, Junya and Wada, Koichi and Yamauchi, Yukiko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-195118},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Consensus, network partitions, liveness, synchronizers}
}
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