Article in Journal ART-2007-11

Bibliography	Alvisi, Lorenzo; Doumen, Jeroen; Guerraoui, Rachid; Koldehofe, Boris; Li, Harry; van Renesse, Robbert; Tredan, Gilles: How robust are gossip-based communication protocols?. In: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. Vol. 41(5). University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology. pp. 14-18, english. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press, October 2007. DOI: 10.1145/1317379.1317383; ISSN: 0163-5980. Article in Journal.
CR-Schema	C.2.4 (Distributed Systems) D.2.4 (Software Engineering Software/Program Verification)
Abstract	Gossip-based communication protocols are often touted as being robust. Not surprisingly, such a claim relies on assumptions under which gossip protocols are supposed to operate. In this paper, we discuss and in some cases expose some of these assumptions and discuss how sensitive the robustness of gossip is to these assumptions. This analysis gives rise to a collection of new research challenges.
Department(s)	University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)	AKS
Entry date	January 21, 2008