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Gossip-based networking has emerged as a viable approach to disseminate information reliably and efficiently in large-scale systems. Initially introduced for database replication [222], the applicability of the approach extends much further now. For example, it has been applied for data aggregation [415], peer sampling [416] and publish/subscribe systems [845]. Gossip-based protocols rely on a periodic peer-wise exchange of information in wired systems. By changing the way each peer is selected for the gossip communication, and which data are exchanged and processed [451], gossip systems can be used to perform different distributed tasks, such as, among others: overlay maintenance, distributed computation, and information dissemination (a collection of papers on gossip can be found in [451]). In a wired setting, the peer sampling service, allowing for a random or specific peer selection, is often provided as an independent service, able to operate independently from other gossip-based services [416].
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Friedman, R., Kermarrec, AM., Miranda, H., Rodrigues, L. (2009). Gossip-Based Dissemination. In: Garbinato, B., Miranda, H., Rodrigues, L. (eds) Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89707-1_8
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