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 * [viewstamped-replication](http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr.pdf)
 
 * [vl2-a-scalable-and-flexible-data-center-network](http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/80693/vl2-sigcomm09-final.pdf)
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