An exercise in fault-containment: Self-stabilizing leader election

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 281-288

  Ghosh, Sukumar ^a   Gupta, Arobinda ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Fault containment; Fault tolerance; Leader election; Self stabilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002790058     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-0190(96)00121-4     Document Type: Article

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