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The Complexity of Adding Failsafe Fault-Tolerance

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The Complexity of Adding Failsafe Fault-Tolerance
In this paper, we focus our attention on the problem of automating the addition of failsafe fault-tolerance where fault-tolerance is added to an existing (fault-intolerant) program. A failsafe faulttolerant program satisfies its specification (including safety and liveness) in the absence of faults. And, in the presence of faults, it satisfies its safety specification. We present a somewhat unexpected result that, in general, the problem of adding failsafe fault-tolerance in distributed programs is NP-hard. Towards this end, we reduce the 3-SAT problem to the problem of adding failsafe fault-tolerance. We also identify a class of specifications, monotonic specifications and a class of programs, monotonic programs. Given a monotonic specification and a monotonic program, we show that failsafe fault-tolerance can be added in polynomial time. We note that the monotonicity restrictions are met for commonly encountered problems such as Byzantine agreement, distributed consensus, and...
Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Ali Ebnenasir
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Type Conference
Year 2002
Where ICDCS
Authors Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Ali Ebnenasir
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