Alexander Heß (Research Group Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz J. Hauck) presented our latest research results in the field of fault-tolerant, distributed systems at Middleware 2024 in Hong Kong. The paper, co-authored by Franz J. Hauck and Echo Meißner, describes a general approach and a prototypical toolkit that can implement state machine replication independently of specific consensus protocols. This approach simplifies the use of state machine replication as a fault tolerance strategy for clients and, based on an agnostic wrapper, allows the versatile selection or switch of the specific consensus protocol used.
Middleware is an important annual ACM/IFIP conference focusing on the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage and communication. This year's conference was held at the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.
