Source to destination communication in the presence of faults

Oded Goldreich, Amir Herzberg, Yishay Mansour

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Abstract

We present a protocol for reliable communication between two processors via an unreliable, and possibly even malicious, communication media. Reliable communication means that all messages are accepted in the same order as sent, with no modifications, omissions, insertions or duplications. Our protocol is resilient to processor crashes (in which the entire memory of the processor is erased), and duplication and recording on the link. Our approach is probabilistic. Namely, for the worst case behavior of the underlying unreliable channel, our protocol guarantees reliable communication with very high probability. The probabilistic approach is justified in light of impossibility result with respect to processor crashes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProc Eighth ACM Symp Princ Distrib Comput
PublisherPubl by ACM
Pages85-101
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)0897913264, 9780897913263
DOIs
StatePublished - 1989
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - Edmonton, Alberta, Can
Duration: 14 Aug 198916 Aug 1989

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
CityEdmonton, Alberta, Can
Period14/08/8916/08/89

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