The election problem in asynchronous distributed systems with bounded faulty processes

  • Authors:
  • Sung Hoon Park

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University Cheongju, Chung Buk, South Korea 361-763

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Determining the "weakest" failure detectors is a central topic in solving many agreement problems such as Consensus, Non-Blocking Atomic Commit and Election in asynchronous distributed systems. So far, this has been studied extensively for several such fundamental problems. It is stated that Perfect Failure Detector P is the weakest failure detector to solve the Election problem with any number of faulty processes. In this paper, we introduce Modal failure detector M and show that to solve Election, M is the weakest failure detector to solve election when the number of faulty processes is less than 驴n/2驴. We also show that it is strictly weaker than P.