How robust are gossip-based communication protocols?

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 14-18

  Alvisi, Lorenzo ^a   Doumen, Jeroen ^b   Guerraoui, Rachid ^c   Koldehofe, Boris ^d   Li, Harry ^a   Van Renesse, Robbert ^e   Tredan, Gilles ^f  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Gossiping; Incentives; Robustness; Security

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; GOSSIP PROTOCOLS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70349742947     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1317379.1317383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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