Selfstabilisation
Self-stabilisation is a property of distributed systems that describes their ability to automatically recover from any transient fault and return to a legitimate state. A self-stabilising system, when placed in any state, will eventually reach a correct, legitimate state without external intervention. This recovery mechanism is inherent to the system's design.
The concept was introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1974. In a self-stabilising system, the system's behaviour
Self-stabilising algorithms are often characterised by their ability to handle transient faults, such as temporary network
Examples of self-stabilising systems include algorithms for mutual exclusion, leader election, and token passing in networks.