INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
Abstract—The prospect of new biological and industrial applications that require communication in micro-scale, encourages research on the design of bio-compatible communication n...
SCL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
This paper analyzes two classes of consensus algorithms in presence of bounded measurement errors. The considered protocols adopt an updating rule based either on constant or vani...
CORR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Abstract—We investigate the consensus problem in a network where nodes communicate via diffusion-based molecular communication (DbMC). In DbMC, messages are conveyed via the vari...
REPLICATION
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Abstract The consensus problem has recently emerged as a major interest in systems conferences, yet the systems community tends to ignore most of the large body of theory on this s...
SIAMCOMP
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper introduces a simple notion of layering as a tool for analyzing well-behaved runs of a given model of distributed computation. Using layering, a model-independent analysi...
SIAMCO
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper presents new graph-theoretic results appropriate to the analysis of a variety of consensus problems cast in dynamically changing environments. The concepts of rooted, s...
AUTOMATICA
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
A consensus problem consists of finding a distributed control strategy that brings the state or output of a group of agents to a common value, a consensus point. In this paper, we...
SIROCCO
2001
13 years 5 months ago
2001
The condition-based approach for consensus solvability (that we have introduced in a previous paper, ACM STOC'01) consists in identifying sets of input vectors for which it i...
AC
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
Abstract. It is now recognized that the Consensus problem is a fundamental problem when one has to design and implement reliable asynchronous distributed systems. This chapter is o...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper is on the Consensus problem, in the context of asynchronous distributed systems made of n processes, at most f of them may crash. A family of failure detector classes s...