==Origin=="Byzantine" refers to the Byzantine Generals' Problem, an agreement problem (described by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease in their 1982 paper, "The Byzantine Generals Problem") in which a group of generals, each commandinga portion of the Byzantine army, encircle a city.
* Network Time Protocol (NTP)* Крюков В. А. Курс лекций «Распределенные ОС»* The Byzantine Generals Problem (with Marshall Pease and Robert Shostak) ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 4, 3 (July 1982), 382—401.