Michael J Fischer
Marek Karpinski (eds.)
Foundations of Computation Theory, pages 127–140
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1983
Agreement problems involve a system of processes, some of which may be faulty. A fundamental problem of fault-tolerant distributed computing is for the reliable processes to reach a consensus. We survey the considerable literature on this problem that has developed over the past few years and give an informal overview of the major theoretical results in the area.
keywords
Byzantine Agreement, Consensus Algorithm, Consensus Problem, Faulty Process, Reliable Process