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2012

Viewstamped Replication Revisited

Barbara Liskov & James Cowling

Restates the original 1988 primary-backup replication protocol in a form directly comparable to Paxos, arguing it solves the same problem with a simpler view-change mechanism.

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Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.