The concept of consensus in distributed computing and multi-agent systems is about achieving system reliability despite the presence of faulty processes. It involves coordinating processes to agree on data values necessary for computation, such as transaction order in a database or atomic broadcasts. Real-world applications that require consensus include cloud computing, clock synchronization, opinion formation, smart power grids, blockchain, and more.
UC Berkeley
Winter 2013
This course provides basic theoretical and practical foundations of distributed systems. Students learn about system models, safety and liveness of protocols, different failure models, reliable group communication abstractions, and more. It utilizes a textbook and additional research paper-based lectures.
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