WDAG
2010
Springer
13 years 3 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...
SCL
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract-- In this work, we focus on a class of nonlinear asynchronous systems defined by two different modes of operation, one stable and the other one unstable. The switching bet...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
The asynchronous systems f are the models of the asynchronous circuits from digital electrical engineering. They are multi-valued functions that associate to each input u : R {0, ...
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...