Fault-tolerant Agreement in Synchronous Message-passing Systems

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Focusing on the challenges of uncertainty in synchronous message-passing systems, this book delves into the complexities of process failures, including crash, omission, and Byzantine behaviors. It addresses fundamental agreement problems essential for distributed systems, such as consensus, interactive consistency, and non-blocking atomic commit. By presenting algorithms and computability bounds for these issues, the book equips application designers with the tools to ensure cooperation and agreement despite failures, enabling the development of reliable distributed software.