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This paper presents techniques for guaranteeing idempotent semantics for classes of network operations in fault-tolerant networks. This is accomplished through operation transformation and message filtering. The conventional response to a failed or corrupted message transmission is to retransmit the failed message. This retry mechanism can lead to duplicate message delivery. If duplicated messages are non-idempotent, duplicate message delivery places the system into an inconsistent state. We explore methods of guaranteeing message idempotence at both the application and network protocol levels.
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Eslick, I., DeHon, A., Knight, T. (1994). Guaranteeing idempotence for tightly-coupled, fault-tolerant networks. In: Bolding, K., Snyder, L. (eds) Parallel Computer Routing and Communication. PCRCW 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 853. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58429-3_39
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