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Conclusion

Although distributed consensus plays a key role in fault-tolerance, the kinds of algorithms we can use to solve this problem depend a great deal on the type of distributed system on which the protocol will run and the assumptions we make about the kinds faults to expect.



Lawrence Kesteloot
Fri Jan 20 16:38:32 EST 1995