A simple proof of the uniform consensus synchronous lower bound. (Q1853174)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1856504
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    A simple proof of the uniform consensus synchronous lower bound.
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1856504

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      A simple proof of the uniform consensus synchronous lower bound. (English)
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      21 January 2003
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      We give a simple and intuitive proof of an \(f+2\) round lower bound for uniform consensus. That is, we show that for every uniform consensus algorithm tolerating \(t\) failures, and for every \(f<t-2\), there is an execution with \(f\) failures that requires \(f+2\) rounds.
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      Distributed computing
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      Fault tolerance
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      Lower bounds
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      Consensus
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