memory corruption
data read from memory differs from what was written, caused by cosmic rays or hardware defects
memory corruption in a sentence
“ECC RAM detects and corrects single-bit memory corruption automatically.”
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message corruption
an arriving message differs from the sent message due to cable degradation or electromagnetic interference
message delay
the time for a message to travel from sender to recipient; unbounded in asynchronous networks
message duplication
a single message arrives multiple times due to routers, retries, or log replays
message reordering
messages arrive in a different order from their sending due to variable latency in asynchronous networks
message omission
a message is sent but never received; indistinguishable from infinite delay in asynchronous systems
network partition
a pattern of message omission where a network link loses all messages between two sets of nodes