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PODC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Signed quorum systems
Abstract With n servers that independently fail with probability of p < 0.5, it is well known that the majority quorum system achieves the best availability among all quorum sys...
Haifeng Yu
WMCSA
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The obscure nature of epidemic quorum systems
Epidemic quorum systems enable highly available agreement even when a quorum is not simultaneously connected, and are therefore very interesting for mobile networks. Although rece...
João Barreto, Paulo Ferreira
OPODIS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Write Markers for Probabilistic Quorum Systems
Probabilistic quorum systems can tolerate a larger fraction of faults than can traditional (strict) quorum systems, while guaranteeing consistency with an arbitrarily high probabi...
Michael G. Merideth, Michael K. Reiter
OPODIS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Timed Quorum Systems for Large-Scale and Dynamic Environments
This paper presents Timed Quorum System (TQS), a quorum system for large-scale and dynamic systems. TQS provides guarantees that two quorums, accessed at instances of time that are...
Vincent Gramoli, Michel Raynal
DC
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Refined quorum systems
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform f...
Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic