A. Jesse Jiryu Davis • 2/14/2023

Review: Distributed Reset

This article reviews the 1994 academic paper 'Distributed Reset' by Arora and Gouda. It explains a protocol that can be added to any distributed system to allow a node to reset all nodes to a predefined 'distinguished state' without stopping the entire system. The summary details the protocol's three-wave process using a self-stabilizing spanning tree and session numbers to manage concurrent resets, ensuring the system behaves as if all nodes reset simultaneously.

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#distributed systems #Reset Protocol #Spanning Tree