Eventual clusterer: A modular approach to designing hierarchical consensus protocols in MANETs

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 753-765

  Wu, Weigang ^a   Cao, Jiannong ^b   Raynal, Michel ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Consensus; Distributed algorithm; Failure detector; Fault tolerance; Mobile ad hoc network; Mobile computing

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER HEAD; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; FAILURE DETECTOR; FAILURE DETECTORS; FAULT-TOLERANT; HIERARCHICAL PROTOCOLS; MOBILE HOST; MODULAR APPROACH; MODULAR DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; TIME COST; TWO LAYERS; UNRELIABLE FAILURE DETECTOR;

DESIGN; DETECTORS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK LAYERS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 67349226746     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.266     Document Type: Article

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