Gossip Protocol Explained

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What Is Gossip Protocol?

The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]:

• maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes)
• communication between nodes

The potential solutions to these problems are as follows [1]:

• centralized state management service
• peer-to-peer state management service

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