Early stopping in global data computation

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 909-921

  Delporte Gallet, Carole ^a   Fauconnier, Hugues ^a   Hélary, Jean Michel ^b   Raynal, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Asynchronous distributed systems; Crash failure; Distributed computing; Early stopping; Fault tolerance; Global data; Perfect failure detector; Reliability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA STRUCTURES; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RELIABILITY; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

ASYNCHRONOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; CRASH FAILURE; EARLY STOPPING; GLOBAL DATA COMPUTATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142039745     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2003.1233713     Document Type: Article

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