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Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava, Dr Paul EzhilchelvanORCiD, Dr Neil Speirs
The problem of constructing reliable processors, hereafter referred to as nodes, out of conventional unreliable processors is examined. We assume that a node is composed of a number of processors and failed processors can exhibit arbitrary behavious. The non-faulty processors o a node execute Byzntine agreement protocols to maintain the abstraction of a fail-controlled (well-behaved) node. the paper presents a variety of node architectures for maintaining the abstraction of fail controlled behaviour with differing functionalities. Some of these architectures are shown to be of practical interest.
Author(s): Shrivastava SK, Ezhilchelvan PD, Speirs NA, Seaton DT
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1991
Pages: 18
Print publication date: 01/07/1991
Source Publication Date: July 1991
Report Number: 333
Institution: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/333.pdf
