fischer-lynch-patterson – keeping simple

More on Fischer, Lynch, Patterson and the parrot theorem.

January 14, 2016 vy academics, systems

I’m thinking about distributed consensus algorithms, timestamping, and databases and if you read that literature you will see many references to the Fischer, Lynch, Paterson

Fischer Lynch Patterson and timeouts

September 20, 2014 vy academics, theory

There is a widely cited (over 1400 cites in CiteseerX ) result called the Fischer-Lynch-Patterson theorem about consensus – a key issue in distributed databases or