This work provides an efficient and realistic atomic broadcast protocol which supports the loss of network messages sent by clients. It is designed as a specialization of a general agreement framework. As far as we know, there is no other consensus-based protocol proposed in the litterature that deals directly with losses without using the reliable broadcast primitive as a resource to deliver messages in a reliable manner. We give details regarding its implementation and correctness proof. Moreover, we analyze its performance through the run of a number o f experimental tests. |