message omission
a message is sent but never received; indistinguishable from infinite delay in asynchronous systems
message omission in a sentence
“Message omission during the partition caused the replica to fall silently behind.”
Related Words
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
misdirected write
data is written to the wrong storage location, overwriting unrelated existing data
misdirected read
a storage device returns data from the wrong location rather than the address requested
concurrent testing
tests that execute multiple logical operations simultaneously across system nodes to expose race conditions