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