The part-time parliament (1998)
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Leslie Lamport
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Keith Marzullo
| Venue: | ACM Transactions on Computer Systems |
| Citations: | 516 - 11 self |
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@ARTICLE{Lamport98thepart-time,
author = {Leslie Lamport and Keith Marzullo},
title = {The part-time parliament},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Computer Systems},
year = {1998},
volume = {16},
pages = {133--169}
}
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Digital Equipment Corporation Recent archaeological discoveries on the island of Paxos reveal that the parliament functioned despite the peripatetic propensity of its part-time legislators. The legislators maintained consistent copies of the parliamentary record, despite their frequent forays from the chamber and the forgetfulness of their messengers. The Paxon parliament’s protocol provides a new way of implementing the state-machine approach to the design of distributed systems.
