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SRDS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Solving Consensus Using Structural Failure Models
Failure models characterise the expected component failures in fault-tolerant computing. In the context of distributed systems, a failure model usually consists of two parts: a fu...
Timo Warns, Felix C. Freiling, Wilhelm Hasselbring
WDAG
1997
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Heartbeat: A Timeout-Free Failure Detector for Quiescent Reliable Communication
Abstract. We study the problem of achieving reliable communication with quiescent algorithms (i.e., algorithms that eventually stop sending messages) in asynchronous systems with p...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Wei Chen, Sam Toueg
WDAG
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Anonymous Asynchronous Systems: The Case of Failure Detectors
Abstract: Due the multiplicity of loci of control, a main issue distributed systems have to cope with lies in the uncertainty on the system state created by the adversaries that ar...
François Bonnet, Michel Raynal