Simple Bivalency Proofs of the Lower Bounds in Synchronous Consensus Problems

A fundamental problem of fault-tolerant distributed computing is for the reliable processes to reach a consensus. For a synchronous distributed system of n processes with up to t crash failures and f failures actually occur, we prove using a straightforward bivalency argument that the lower bound fo...

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Main Authors: Wang, Xianbing, Teo, Yong Meng, Cao, Jiannong
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3873