Timeliness, failure-detectors, and consensus performance

  • Authors:
  • Idit Keidar;Alexander Shraer

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion;Technion

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We study the implication that various timeliness and failure detector assumptions have on the performance of consensus algorithms that exploit them. We present a general framework, GIRAF, for expressing such assumptions, and reasoning about the performance of indulgent algorithms.