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Title: | Lower Bounds for Achieving Synchronous Early Stopping Consensus with Orderly Crash Failures |
Keywords: | Consensus Orderly crash failure Early stopping synchronous distributed system |
Issue Date: | 9-Oct-2013 |
Description: | In this paper, we discuss the consensus problem for synchronous distributed systems with orderly crash failures. For a synchronous distributed system of n processes with up to t crash failures and f failures actually occur, first, we present a bivalency argument proof to solve the open problem of proving the lower bound, min (t + 1, f + 2) rounds, for early-stopping synchronous consensus with orderly crash failures, where t < n - 1. Then, we extend the system model with orderly crash failures to a new model in which a process is allowed to send multiple messages to the same destination process in a round and the failing processes still respect the order specified by the protocol in sending messages. For this new model, we present a uniform consensus protocol, in which all non-faulty processes always decide and stop immediately by the end of f + 1 rounds. We prove that the lower bound of early stopping protocols for both consensus and uniform consensus are f + 1 rounds under the new model, and our proposed protocol is optimal. Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) |
URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721 |
Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7425 |
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