papers-we-love_papers-we-love/gossip

If you only read one of these papers, start with the classic Demers, et al paper:

• [Epidemic Algorithms for Replicated Database Maintenance] (http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-89-1_Epidemic_Algorithms_for_Replicated_Database_Maintenance.pdf)

Peer sampling services

Briefly, a peer sampling service is a system that maintains a restricted set (partial view) of the all machines participating in a gossip system.

• The Peer Sampling Service: Experimental Evaluation of Unstructured Gossip-Based Implementations
• HyParView
• SWIM: Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol

Epidemic broadcast

• Large-Scale Newscast Computing on the Internet
• Bimodal Multicast
• Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols
• Epidemic Broadcast Trees

Failure Detectors

• A Gossip-Style Failure Detection Service
• The ϕ Accrual Failure Detector