Communication-efficient leader election and consensus with limited link synchrony

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Volumn 23, Issue , 2004, Pages 328-337

  Aguilera, Marcos K ^a   Delporte Gallett, Carole ^b   Fauconnier, Hugues ^b   Toueg, Sam ^c  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asynchronous systems; Consensus; Distributed systems; Failure detector; Fault tolerance; Leader election; Partially synchronous systems; Synchronous systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; THEOREM PROVING;

ASYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS; FAILURE DETECTORS; LEADER ELECTION; PARTIALLY SYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS;

EID: 10444267240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1011767.1011816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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