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In this book, we introduce the fundamental process in constructing a distributed system, which is referred to as rendezvous. A distributed system is composed of multiple autonomous entities that can make decisions locally. Through appropriate cooperation among these distributed entities, the system can be utilized to carry out some global computational tasks. In order for the entities to cooperate, communication links have to be made use of dynamically and effectively through their connected external ports; entities may fail to connect to the others if they make a wrong choice of the external ports. To be able to access the correct connected pair of external ports by the two entities involved in a communication act is essential in all cooperation, and the aim of the rendezvous algorithms we study is to achieve that efficiently.
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Gu, Z., Wang, Y., Hua, QS., Lau, F.C.M. (2017). Conclusions and Future Works. In: Rendezvous in Distributed Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3680-4_20
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