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Of Choices, Failures and Asynchrony: The Many Faces of Set Agreement

Alistarh, Dan  
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Gilbert, Seth  
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Guerraoui, Rachid  
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2012
Algorithmica

Set agreement is a fundamental problem in distributed computing in which processes collectively choose a small subset of values from a larger set of proposals. The impossibility of fault-tolerant set agreement in asynchronous networks is one of the seminal results in distributed computing. In synchronous networks, too, the complexity of set agreement has been a significant research challenge that has now been resolved. Real systems, however, are neither purely synchronous nor purely asynchronous. Rather, they tend to alternate between periods of synchrony and periods of asynchrony. Nothing specific is known about the complexity of set agreement in such a "partially synchronous" setting.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s00453-011-9581-7
Web of Science ID

WOS:000298388200026

Author(s)
Alistarh, Dan  
Gilbert, Seth  
Guerraoui, Rachid  
Travers, Corentin
Date Issued

2012

Published in
Algorithmica
Volume

62

Start page

595

End page

629

Subjects

Distributed computing

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Message passing

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Set agreement

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Eventual synchrony

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Time complexity

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Lower bounds

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Synchronous Systems

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Atomic Snapshots

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Consensus

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February 2, 2012
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/77511
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