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Unreliable failure detectors for asynchronous systems (preliminary version)
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The weakest failure detector for solving consensus
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Understanding the limitations of causally and totally ordered communication
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Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems
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Unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The Timed Asynchronous Distributed System Model
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Replication and fault-tolerance in the ISIS system
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
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Rejuvenation and Failure Detection in Partitionable Systems
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ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
Total order broadcast and multicast algorithms: Taxonomy and survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A Cheap and Safe COTS Wormhole for Local Area Networks
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The notification based approach to implementing failure detectors in distributed systems
InfoScale '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems
Evaluation of the QoS of crash-recovery failure detection
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
HOTOS'03 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 9
Session state: beyond soft state
NSDI'04 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 1
Global data computation in chordal rings
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Semi-passive replication and Lazy Consensus
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
HotOS'09 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Hot topics in operating systems
Detecting failures in distributed systems with the Falcon spy network
SOSP '11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Asynchronous failed sensor node detection method for sensor networks
International Journal of Network Management
Exploiting partitioned synchrony to implement accurate failure detectors
International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems
Improving availability in distributed systems with failure informers
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
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Perfect failure detectors can correctly decide whether a computer is crashed. However, it is impossible to implement a perfect failure detector in purely asynchronous systems. We show how to enforce perfect failure detection in timed asynchronous systems with hardware watchdogs. The two main system model assumptions are 1) each computer can measure time intervals with a known maximum error and 2) each computer has a watchdog that crashes the computer unless the watchdog is periodically updated. We have implemented a system that satisfies both assumptions using a combination of off-the-shelf software and hardware. To implement a perfect failure detector for process crash failures, we show that, in some systems, a hardware watchdog is actually not necessary.