Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming

By Christian Cachin, Rachid Guerraoui, Luis Rodrigues, et al.

Book Overview

1. Introduction. - 1.1 Motivation. -1.2 Distributed Programming Abstractions. 1.3 The End-to-End Argument. 1.4 Software Components. - 1.5 Classes of Algorithms. -1.6 Chapter Notes. 2. Basic Abstractions. - 2.1 Distributed Computation. - 2.2 Abstracting Processes. - 2.3 Cryptographic Abstractions. - 2.4 Abstracting Communication. - 2.5 Timing Assumptions. - 2.6 Abstracting Time. - 2.7 Distributed-System Models. - 2.8 Exercises. - 2.9 Solutions. - 2.10 Chapter Notes . - . - 3. Reliable Broadcast. - 3.1 Motivation. - 3.2 Best-Effort Broadcast. - 3.3 Regular Reliable Broadcast. - 3.4 Uniform Reliable Broadcast. - 3.5 Stubborn Broadcast. - 3.6 Logged Best-Effort Broadcast. - 3.7 Logged Uniform Reliable Broadcast. - 3.8 Probabilistic Broadcast. - 3.9 FIFO and Causal Broadcast. - 3.10 Byzantine Consistent Broadcast. - 3.11 Byzantine Reliable Broadcast. - 3.12 Byzantine Broadcast Channels. - 3.13 Exercises. - 3.14 Solutions. - 3.15 Chapter Notes . - . - 4. Shared Memory. - 4.1 Introduction. - 4.2 (1, N) Regular Register. - 4.3 (1, N) Atomic Register. - 4.4 (N, N) Atomic Register. - 4.5 (1, N) Logged Regular Register. - 4.6 (1, N) Byzantine Safe Register. - 4.7 (1, N) Byzantine Regular Register. - 4.8 (1, N) Byzantine Atomic Register. - 4.9 Exercises. - 4.10 Solutions. - 4.11 Chapter Notes . - . - 5. Consensus. - 5.1 Regular Consensus. - 5.2 Uniform Consensus. - 5.3 Uniform Consensus in the Fail-Noisy Model. - 5.4 Logged Consensus. - 5.5 Randomized Consensus. - 5.6 Byzantine Consensus. - 5.7 Byzantine Randomized Consensus. - 5.8 Exercises. - 5.9 Solutions. - 5.10 Chapter Notes . - . - 6. Consensus Variants. - 6.1 Total-Order Broadcast. - 6.2 Byzantine Total-Order Broadcast. - 6.3 Terminating Reliable Broadcast. - 6.4 Fast Consensus. - 6.5 Fast Byzantine Consensus. - 6.6 Non-blocking Atomic Commit. - 6.7 Group Membership. - 6.8 View-Synchronous Communication. - 6.9 Exercises. - 6.10 Solutions. - 6.11 Chapter Notes . - . - 7. Concluding Remarks. - 7.1 Implementation in Appia. - 7.2 Further Implementations. - 7.3 Further Readi

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642423272
• ISBN13: 9783642423277
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"