message delay
the time for a message to travel from sender to recipient; unbounded in asynchronous networks
message delay in a sentence
“An unexpected message delay made the leader falsely suspect the follower had crashed.”
Related Words
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
pause
a process halts for some duration then resumes; in asynchronous systems, pauses can be indefinitely long
storage corruption
a storage device silently returns incorrect data for reads without signaling any error