Anti-Ω: the weakest failure detector for set agreement

  • Authors:
  • Piotr Zielinski

  • Affiliations:
  • Google Inc., London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-seventh ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the set agreement problem, n processes have to decide on at most n-1 of the proposed values. This paper shows that the anti-Omega failure detector is both sufficient and necessary to solve set agreement in an asynchronous shared-memory system. Each query to anti-Omega returns a single process id; the specification ensures that there is a correct process whose id is returned only finitely many times.