Computer Science

Brief announcement: Reaching approximate consensus when everyone may crash

Document Type

Conference Paper

Abstract

Fault-tolerant consensus is of great importance in distributed systems. This paper studies the asynchronous approximate consensus problem in the crash-recovery model with fair-loss links. In our model, up to f nodes may crash forever, while the rest may crash intermittently. Each node is equipped with a limited-size persistent storage that does not lose data when crashed. We present an algorithm that only stores three values in persistent storage - state, phase index, and a counter.

Publication Title

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs

Publication Date

2020

Volume

179

ISSN

1868-8969

ISBN

9783959771689

DOI

10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2020.53

Keywords

approximate consensus, crash-recovery, fair-loss channel

APA Citation

Tseng, L., Zhang, Q., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Brief Announcement: Reaching Approximate Consensus When Everyone May Crash. In 34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020). Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.

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