Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
"Failure Detectors in Homonymous Distributed Systems (with an Application to Consensus)".
Año:2012
Áreas de investigación
  • Ciencias de la computación y tecnología informática
Datos
Descripción
This paper is on homonymous distributed systems where processes are prone to crash failures and have no initial knowledge of the system membership (?homonymous? means that several processes may have the same identi?er). New classes of failure detectors suited to these systems are ?rst de?ned. Among them, the classes H? and H? are introduced that are the homonymous counterparts of the classes ? and ?, respectively. (Recall that the pair h?,?i de?nes the weakest failure detector to solve consensus.) Then, the paper shows how H? and H? can be implemented in homonymous systems without membership knowledge (under different synchrony requirements). Finally, two algorithms are presented that use these failure detectors to solve consensus in homonymous asynchronous systems where there is no initial knowledge ofthe membership. One algorithm solves consensus with hH?, H?i, while the other uses only H?, but needs a majority of correct processes. Observe that the systems with unique identi?ers and anonymous systems are extreme cases of homonymous systems from which follows that all these results also apply to these systems. Interestingly, the new failure detector class H? can be implemented with partial synchrony, while the analogous class A? de?ned for anonymous systems can not be implemented (even in synchronous systems). Hence, the paper provides us with the ?rst proof showing that consensus can be solved in anonymous systems with only partial synchrony (and a majority of correct processes).
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
IEEE 32nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
China.
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-1-4577-0295-2
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
18/06/2012
Fecha fin congreso
21/06/2012
Desde la página
275
Hasta la página
284
Título de las actas
IEEE 32nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Laboratorio de sistemas distribuidos (LSD)
  • Departamento: Informática Aplicada