Space-efficient asynchronous consensus without shared memory initialization

Michael J. Fischer, Shlomo Moran, Gadi Taubenfeld

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Abstract

We study the consensus problem in a shared memory model where all processes are programmed alike, there is no global synchronization, it is not possible to simultaneously reset all parts of the system to a known initial state, and processes may be faulty. We present a consensus protocol for n processes which can tolerate up to ⌈n/2⌉ - 1 failures and which uses a single (2⌈1.5n-1⌉)-valued shared register.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-105
Number of pages5
JournalInformation Processing Letters
Volume45
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Feb 1993
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Fault tolerance
  • crash failures
  • initialization failures
  • shared memory

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