#Number
TR-PDS-1998-003

#Title 
On the Resilience of Multicasting Strategies in a Failure-Propagating
Environment

#Author
Meng-Jang Lin, Aleta Ricciardi and Keith Marzullo (UCSD)

#Abstract 
We define an <i> infective system </i> as one in which processes may
corrupt one another, without bound, through shared state.  In message
passing systems, infection may occur when an infected process sends an
infective message.  Since infection spreads by communication, we expect
that when algorithms differ in the pattern of communication, the rate at
which infection spreads will also differ.  We examine this through
simulation and further examine the effects of varying the parameters of an
infective system.  

#Bib
@techreport{TR9803
        author = {M-J. Lin and A. Ricciardi and K. Marzullo},
        title = {{On the Resilience of Multicasting Strategies in a
Failure-Propagating Environment}},   
        institution = {UT Austin},
        number = {PDS-1998-003},
        year = {1998}
}