Building blocks for Erlang/OTP systems using distributed algorithms.

copyright 2007-2008 Basho Technologies

authors:

• Justin Sheehy
• Andy Gross

Code added so far:

references:

• Leslie Lamport (1978). "Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system". Communications of the ACM 21 (7): 558-565.
• Friedemann Mattern (1988). "Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems". Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms: pp. 215-226

reference:

• Karger, D.; Lehman, E.; Leighton, T.; Panigrahy, R.; Levine, M.; Lewin, D. (1997). "Consistent hashing and random trees". Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing: 654~663. ACM Press New York, NY, USA

reference:

• Ralph C. Merkle, A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function, A Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques on Advances in Cryptology, p.369-378, August 16-20, 1987