Consecutive Votes in Paxos

Eil Goldweber, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, comes on today to share his work in applying formal verification to systems and a modification to the Paxos protocol discussed in the paper [Significance on Consecutive Ballots in Paxos](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3382734.3405700).

**Works Mentioned :** Previous Episode on Paxos [https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2020/distributed-consensus](https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2020/distributed-consensus)

**Paper:** [On the Significance on Consecutive Ballots in Paxos](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3382734.3405700) by: Eli Goldweber, Nuda Zhang, and Manos Kapritsos

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Guest

Eil Goldweber: Eli Goldweber is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan advised by Manos Kapritsos. Eli earned a BS in Computer Science from Syracuse University in 2016. Eli's research focuses on distributed consensus and the application of formal verification to build correct systems.