康奈尔的K. Birman(虚同步的鼻祖)的History of Virtual Synchrony Replication 一文讲述了Virtual Synchrony的发展历史,根据该文章,整理出了虚同步的核心文献,如下:
• J.M. Chang, N.F. Maxemchuck, "Reliable broadcast protocols", ACM Trans. on. Computer Systems 2 (3), Aug. 1984, pp. 251‐273
• F. Cristian, H. Aghali, R. Strong and D. Dolev, "Atomic Broadcast: From Simple Message Diffusion to Byzantine Agreement", in Proc. 15th Int. Symp. on Fault‐Tolerant Computing (FTCS‐15), (Ann Arbor, MI, USA), pp.200‐206, IEEE Computer Society Press, June 1985
• K. Birman, T. Joseph, T. Räuchle, A. El Abbadi: Implementing Fault‐Tolerant Distributed Objects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 11:6, June 1985.
• K. Birman. Replication and Fault‐Tolerance in the ISIS System. 10th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec 1985, 79‐86.
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