Irreducibility and additivity of set agreement-oriented failure detector classes

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 153-162

  Mostefaoui, Achour ^a   Rajsbaum, Sergio ^b   Raynal, Michel ^a   Travers, Corentin ^a  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Asynchronous system; Fault tolerance; Unreliable failure detector

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DETECTORS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SET THEORY;

ASYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS; FAILURE DETECTOR CLASSES; UNRELIABLE FAILURE DETECTORS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33748687372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1146381.1146406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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