Hi Patricia, I've gone through the same "Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance" paper that you have. Here are some of my comments. I don't if you'll find them useful or not.
1. "[replicatants] must start in the same state". Does this mean that we can't adhoc add or replace replicas? 2. References 18 & 26 are probably worth checking out. 3. We probably don't need the cryptography stuff from this algo. 4. There is a limit to the number of replicants that must exist and be working for the system to work. That limit is > 2 which might be an issue. I suppose it depends on what we say is required in any SLA. Cheers, Tom On 24 Mar 2011 05:18, "Patricia Shanahan" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've started writing an annotated bibliography for background reading on > fault tolerance for River developers. It is checked in to > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/river/jtsk/skunk/patsFaultTolerance. The > check-in includes the generated .pdf file, so that anyone can read it > even if they are not set up to process bibtex and latex files. > > If you read any papers in this area and want to add them, you have two > choices: > > 1. Check out the directory, edit the .tex and .bib files, rebuild the > .pdf, and check in the new versions. This option is only recommended if > you are already set up to process latex and bibtex files. > > 2. E-mail me the citation and your comments and I'll incorporate them. > If convenient, please include the bibtex citation. > > Note that even if a paper with an apparently relevant title turns out to > be useless, it is still worth adding it with a note on why it is > useless. That way, other developers will be able to avoid wasting time > finding and reading it. > > Patricia
