In the era of Internet-scale applications, an increasing number of services are distributed
over pools of thousands to millions of networked computers. Along with the obvious …

A large number of gossip protocols have been developed in the last few years to address a
wide range of functionalities. So far, however, very few software frameworks have been …

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in gossip protocols, with proposals to apply them
for purposes ranging from autonomic self-management, repair of inconsistencies, reliable …

This dissertation is based on my work related to gossip protocols that solve various
problems in massively distributed large scale networks. Resisting the temptation to present …

The gossip paradigm made its first appearance in distributed systems in 1987, when it was
applied to disseminate updates in replicated databases. Two decades later, gossip-based …

In recent years the labels" gossip" and" gossip-based" have been applied to an increasingly
general class of algorithms, including approaches to information aggregation, overlay …

Gossip-based protocols are commonly used for diffusing information in large-scale
distributed applications. GO (Gossip Objects) is a per-node gossip platform that we …

A gossip protocol is a distributed communication paradigm inspired by the gossip
phenomenon that can be observed in social networks. Initially born to efficiently disseminate …

Gossip is one of the most usual social activities. The result of gossip is that new and
interesting information spreads over a social network not unlike diseases during an …

Modern distributed systems may consist of hundreds of thousands of computers, ranging
from high-end powerful machines to low-end resource-constrained wireless devices. We …