Release of “ARC: Analysis of Raft Consensus”

 “ARC: Analysis of Raft Consensus” is now available online as a UCAM technical report. 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-857.pdf

Abstract

The Paxos algorithm, despite being synonymous with distributed consensus for a decade, is famously difficult to reason about and implement due to its non-intuitive approach and underspecification. In response, this project implemented and evaluated a framework for constructing fault-tolerant applications, utilising the recently proposed Raft algorithm for distributed consensus. Constructing a simulation framework for our implementation enabled us to evaluate the protocol on everything from understandability and efficiency to correctness and performance in diverse network environments. We propose a range of optimisations to the protocol and released to the community a testbed for developing further optimisations and investigating optimal protocol parameters for real-world deployments.

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