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A distributed system is no longer confined to a single administrative domain. Peer-to-peer applications and business-to-business e-commerce systems, for example, typically span multiple local-area and wide-area networks, raising issues of trust, security, and anonymity. This paper introduces a distributed systems model with an explicit notion of domain that defines the scope of trust and local communication within a system. We introduce leader-election oracles that distinguish between common and distinct domains, encapsulating failure-detection information and leading to modular solutions and proofs. We show how Reliable Broadcast can be implemented in our domain-based model, we analyze the cost of communicating across groups, and we establish lower-bounds on the number of cross-domain messages necessary to implement Reliable Broadcast.
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Frølund, S., Pedone, F. (2002). Ruminations on Domain-Based Reliable Broadcast. In: Malkhi, D. (eds) Distributed Computing. DISC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36108-1_10
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