Brief Announcement: Effects of Topology Knowledge and Relay Depth on Asynchronous Consensus

Authors Dimitris Sakavalas, Lewis Tseng, Nitin H. Vaidya



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Dimitris Sakavalas
  • Boston College, USA
Lewis Tseng
  • Boston College, USA
Nitin H. Vaidya
  • Georgetown University, USA

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Dimitris Sakavalas, Lewis Tseng, and Nitin H. Vaidya. Brief Announcement: Effects of Topology Knowledge and Relay Depth on Asynchronous Consensus. In 32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 121, pp. 51:1-51:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2018.51

Abstract

Consider an asynchronous incomplete directed network. We study the feasibility and efficiency of approximate crash-tolerant consensus under different restrictions on topology knowledge and relay depth, i.e., the maximum number of hops any message can be relayed.

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  • Computer systems organization → Fault-tolerant network topologies
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  • Asynchrony
  • crash fault
  • consensus
  • topology knowledge
  • relay

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