Università della Svizzera italiana

Multicoordinated agreement protocols and the log service

Camargos, Lasaro Jonas ; Pedone, Fernando (Dir.) ; Madeira, Edmundo R.M. (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2008 ; 2008INFO001.

Agreement problems are a common abstraction in distributed systems. They appear when the components of the system must concur on reconfigurations, changes of state, or in lines of action in general. Examples of agreement problems are Consensus, Atomic Commitment, and Atomic Broadcast. In this thesis we investigate these abstractions in the context of the environment in which they will run and the...