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A secure group membership protocol

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Reiter, MK
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
December 1, 1996

-A group membership protocol enables processes in a distributed system to agree on a group of processes that are currently operational. Membership protocols are a core component of many distributed systems and have proved to be fundamental for maintaining availability and consistency in distributed applications. In this paper we present a membership protocol for asynchronous distributed systems that tolerates the malicious corruption of group members. Our protocol ensures that correct members control and consistently observe changes to the group membership, provided that in each instance of the group membership, fewer than one-third of the members are corrupted or fail benignly. The protocol has many potential applications in secure systems and, in particular, is a central component of a toolkit for constructing secure and fault-tolerant distributed services that we have implemented. ©1096 IEEE.

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Published In

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

DOI

ISSN

0098-5589

Publication Date

December 1, 1996

Volume

22

Issue

1

Start / End Page

31 / 42

Related Subject Headings

  • Software Engineering
  • 4612 Software engineering
  • 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0806 Information Systems
  • 0803 Computer Software
 

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Reiter, M. K. (1996). A secure group membership protocol. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 22(1), 31–42. https://doi.org/10.1109/32.481515
Reiter, M. K. “A secure group membership protocol.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 22, no. 1 (December 1, 1996): 31–42. https://doi.org/10.1109/32.481515.
Reiter MK. A secure group membership protocol. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 1996 Dec 1;22(1):31–42.
Reiter, M. K. “A secure group membership protocol.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 22, no. 1, Dec. 1996, pp. 31–42. Scopus, doi:10.1109/32.481515.
Reiter MK. A secure group membership protocol. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 1996 Dec 1;22(1):31–42.

Published In

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

DOI

ISSN

0098-5589

Publication Date

December 1, 1996

Volume

22

Issue

1

Start / End Page

31 / 42

Related Subject Headings

  • Software Engineering
  • 4612 Software engineering
  • 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0806 Information Systems
  • 0803 Computer Software