Directional gossip:gossip in a wide area network

摘要

Since they lack the amount of synchronization that traditional mulatcast protocols have,the reliability of gossip-based protocols is determined using different analytical tools.the mathematics of epidemiology are often applied,since the spread of a message with a gossip protocoal is much like the spread of a disease in a susceptible population.When the mathematics become intractable,simulation is often used.