Gossip protocol : Machines at water cooler – Outlooking life
Close resemblance to how epidemics spread. But in our case it is a communication protocol.
– Involves pair wise inter process interaction
– After interaction, state of one of two interacting agent changes.
– It may so happen that the interaction fails between the processes.
– Cost of interaction is deemed negligible.
– Peers for inter process communication are selected randomly.
– There may be duplication in the message being gossiped, i.e. Both the agents were already aware of the messages being gossiped.
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