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Paxos (computer science)

In computer science, Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable or fallible processors. Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communications may experience failures.

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Paxos (computer science)

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paxos protocol proposer acceptors consensus message leader one accepted acceptor failures value basic messages processors state may round number protocols

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