Group Communication, Total Ordering and Consensus

These are scientific papers which have influenced Postgres-R in some way or another, very interesting readings.

Total Order Broadcast and Multicast Algorithms: Taxonomy and Survey
a good overview, classification and theoretical comparison of group communication systems, by Xavier Défago, André Schipper and Péter Urbán, April 2004
Comparative Performance Analysis of Ordering Strategies in Atomic Broadcast Algorithms
Theoretical analysis of various algorithms for atomic broadcast used for total ordered delivery of messages, by Xavier Défago, André Schiper and Péter Urbán, December 2003
PLATO: Predictive Latency-Aware Total Ordering
An interesting approach to implement low-latency reliable multicasting in datacenters, based on observing arrival times, by Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman and Amar Phanishayee, October 2006
Ricochet: Lateral Error Correction for Time-Critical Multicast
Ricochet uses IP multicast and lateral error correction to implement reliable multicasting for clustered applications, by Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Amar Phanishayee and Stefan Pleisch, April 2007.

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