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Journal of the ACM (JACM)
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Journal of the ACM (JACM)
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Journal of the ACM (JACM)
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Elections in a Distributed Computing System
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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This paper is about the weakest failure detector to solve the Election problem in asynchronous distributed systems. We first discuss the relationship between the Election problem and the Consensus problem in asynchronous distributed systems with unreliable failure detectors. Chandra and Toueg have stated that Consensus is solvable in asynchronous systems with unreliable failure detectors. But, in contrast to the Consensus problem, the Election problem is impossible to solve with unreliable failure detectors even with a single crash failure. More precisely, the weakest failure detector that is needed to solve this problem is a Perfect Failure Detector, which is strictly stronger than the weakest failure detector that is needed to solve Consensus.