Leader election problem on networks in which processor identity numbers are not distinct

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 878-887

  Yamashita, Masafumi ^a,b   Kameda, Tsunehiko ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Broadcast communication; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Leader election; Mailbox communication; Point to point communication

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

LEADER ELECTION PROBLEM;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033185158     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.798313     Document Type: Article

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