I finished my M.Phil. in Transaction Processing some time back. Just didn't get around to putting it up online anywhere.
Dr. Jim Gray and Dr. Leslie Lamport published a paper outlining a new distributed commit protocol based on the Paxos Consensus Algorithm. I implemented and compared this protocol with the the very popular Two Phase Commit Algorithm. In the process I was also able to identify some areas of improvement and I have implemented a slightly modified commit protocol that uses the original Paxos Consensus based protocol to achieve better performance.
A link to the Full Dissertation.
