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Consecutive Votes in Paxos
Eil Goldweber, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, comes on today to share his work in applying formal verification to systems and a modification to the Paxos protocol discussed in the paper Significance on Consecutive Ballots in Paxos.
Works Mentioned :
Previous Episode on PaxosÂ
https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2020/distributed-consensus
Paper:
On the Significance on Consecutive Ballots in Paxos by: Eli Goldweber, Nuda Zhang, and Manos Kapritsos
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