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WDAG
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
OPODIS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Failure detectors are commonly viewed as abstractions for the synchronism present in distributed system models. However, investigations into the exact amount of synchronism encapsu...
DSN
2005
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper describes an experiment performed on Wide Area Network to assess and fairly compare the Quality of Service provided by a large family of failure detectors. Failure dete...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
ICTAC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
It has recently been shown that fair exchange, a security problem in distributed systems, can be reduced to a fault tolerance problem, namely a special form of distributed consensu...