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Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process

Summary: Shows that in a fully asynchronous system, no deterministic protocol can guarantee termination for binary consensus if even one process may fail (possibility of nontermination). Establishes the FLP impossibility separating asynchronous from synchronous/Byzantine solutions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
639
Venue
PODS
Year
1983
Pagerank
0.00019173482
Overall Rank
400 | 97.26%
DOI
10.1145/588058.588060

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fischer_pods83,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '83},
        title = {{Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588058.588060},
        doi = {10.1145/588058.588060},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Fischer, Michael J. and Lynch, Nancy A. and Paterson, Michael S.},
        year = {1983}
}

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